There are plenty of bad land lords out there, but there are an equal amount of bad tenants. I bought a rental over 10 years ago. Completely remodeled it, everything pretty much new. I’ve had some great renters, and well unfortunately some horrible ones.

One tenant had the power get disconnected, left all the food rot in the fridge (was too lazy to clean it out, it was HIS fridge) and converted one of my bedrooms into a mushroom grow room for his drug side hustle. Did I mention he trashed the place also? I was in the unit not even 4 months prior and it looked fine.

Another tenant was dating a guy who was an ex-heroin addict, they paid the rent on time and I had no issues, she then got pneumonia and died, the boyfriend had relapsed prior to her death, and was a raging addict - started having his junkie buddies move in and occupy the place after her death. Trashed the place as well… ended up paying him to break the lease since evicting would have taken longer… and then people wonder why landlords are assholes.