They’ve built housing and the structure for businesses from the bottom up with risks all around them. At any moment they could take their investments and just live on them but instead invest hard earned cash in a dream that others will attach themselves too. Real estate is a tricky market and takes years and years to recoup without the government pulling their greedy hands into the formula. There are all different costs such as insurance, leaks, energy and G-D knows what which can make this investment much trickier then it looks. So before you just the “greedy landlord” maybe you should look at his previous balance sheets and see that in many cases it is truly heavenly sent.