From individuals?

Anecdotally: I've rented 5 different single-family houses in my life. All of them were rented from individuals.

Only 1 out of the 5 had a landlord that owned some other stuff that they also rented out.

For the remaining 4 out of 5, the landlord only had that singular property to rent: They lived wherever they lived, and they also had an extra house for whatever reason that they rented to me.

> For every complex and difficult problem, there is a simple, easy and wrong solution.

Sure, but realize that also applies to the current status quo.

Also, you cannot create the 'right' solution to a complex, nuanced social problem. You can only slowly shift the problem over time, one 'wrong' solution at a time.

"how would anyone rent a house?" From a private owner

"How would home builders build model homes?" - This is a great point. I should have said "after the home is built"

"How would Trusts manage real estate" - for residential real-estate, they wouldn't. An individual would. But I just want to point out that I never said that corporations shouldn't own real estate. I said they shouldn't own residential real estate.

It's only as complex an nuanced as we make it. For most of history, individual people owned real estate. Only recently did we manage to screw that up. We can unscrew it.