Landlords didn't get their job for their brains, also ALAB.

maintaining a property

Your mistake is in framing "owning a property" as "maintaining a property".

I sure as hell can’t keep up with my own home, let alone another.

This is exactly the problem. Many people will rent out their building, and not be up to the task to keep it habitable.

I worked in a grocery store, a bar, a coffee shop, a restaurant and a big retail store, so yeah — I've "maintained" a property before.

Also, I have called maintenance many times in my life, ive literally never met a landlord. In fact the only time I ever interacted with a landlord was when I was hospitalized and lost my job, and was late paying my November rent because I was unconscious and my landlord text me that I had ruined his family's Christmas 👍

If I had someone paying off my mortgage and extra I would definitely have the time and money to maintain my house.

You'll be downvoted but you're correct. Being a (good) small time landlord for affordable housing is a full time job as well as basically being on call 24/7. Unfortunately when a corporation does it, it has the power to bleed everyone dry.

The landlord doesn't do all repairs themselves, they pay someone to do repairs. Most regular maintenance of the property is the responsibility of the tenant. That's why people treat investment properties as passive income, because effectively they are.

Really wonder why its a multi billion dollar industry just operating off the kindness of landlords, you think they would have pulled out by now with their massive intelligence.

They pay someone to do that

It's a "job" they themselves created for themselves. That our something they have to do because they own the property, and if they didn't own it they wouldn't have to do it. And chances are they won't even do anything, they'll just hire someone else to fix it.

You don't get paid to fix your own property, why should they get paid to fix their property?

That's the job of the handy man. If the landlord is too cheap to hire enough staff for his company, then he has multiple jobs.

Photogenic: Looks good in photographs; attractive

Memory: A construct of one's mind that allows them to recall information

a photogenic memory = a beautiful mind.

It is humorous because the assumption is that I mean to say "photographic memory". One with a photographic memory can recall visual information to which they've been exposed with great accuracy.

But when I tell this joke to friends or colleagues, I say "No no, a photogenic memory...I have a beautiful mind". There was a film with actor Russell Crowe called A Beautiful Mind in which he plays a brilliant professor who we discover late in the film has schizophrenia which has caused him no small amount of embarrassment and challenges in his life. According to diagnostic testing I had done, I have a high intelligence quotient along with autism, and it, too, has caused me embarrassment and challenges in my life.

So when I say I have a "beautiful mind", people remember that film and it occurs to them that I am saying I am intelligent (something friends and colleagues already know about me) but that my autism (something they also know about me) makes me a little weird and is a burden to me sometimes. It's just a bit of self-deprecating humor.

A photographic memory means you can recall a perfect visual image in your mind of a past event and examine it for details as if it were a picture. So, for example, if you are trying to remember a book quote, you'd bring up a visualization of the page of the book that you read and read the words on the page again.