Certainly, we can all agree that every segment of society has a few bad actors.However, in your post, you set out haranguing other landlords (that posted above, as you state) for some perceived wide-ranging ill that there does not appear to be any evidence for, at least on this thread.To baselessly condemn the entire profession without that merit, to me, does indeed reinforce a false narrative.If I were to muse publicly, as you did, that since a few individuals belonging to an industry (or ethnicity) did wrong, paint them all with a broad unilateral brush and declare “and people wonder why (that group) have a bad name”, I’ll bet you’d use a harsher term than “false narrative” to describe that sentiment.Landlords have a very unfair negative public image because of a very small percentage of individuals in the industry, and you are not helping.

Why would anyone put 30% miss housing payment when they were talking about only apartment renters, a very small segment of housing?

Saving $, if putting your $ in the bank = losing $, and real estate investing tends to yield relatively well during recession, especially segment & target specific area/types of real estate imo.I think if you find “good deal” still should stick to your plan, and continue investing in real estate!

I own rental property in Omaha, and in a sense, I'm treating a city of five hundred thousand like a town of twenty-thousand by focusing my investing on two segments of one zip code.My father-in-law lives in a town of five thousand, and his father, at one time, owned eight houses that were occupied by the same families for three decades.

The media pieces rarely show the difficulty associated with the business, choosing instead to always add the standard 'we broke a wall & found this...' segment to their pieces.  

Airbnb’s founder/CEO had a segment on CNBC discussing how travel has changed forever.

So there’s a segment of the market you’ll always miss with that.So for me the clear winner is Zillow.

Whole life insurance just pads the premium rate for the sake of a segment of your life throughout which you will not be requiring life insurance.

However, I think it is an under served segment and a lot of renters have pets. 

I am obsessed with looking at our market segments and the inventory that's available.