Aren’t you exploiting the economic condition that housing supply is extremely low, and a lot of them vote to keep supply low and prevent new builds? I’m not trying to be facetious but I find it hard to believe that landlords don’t exploit economic conditions.
That's too broad of a concept to be useful. If you applied it like that then quitting a job would be rent seeking for the same reason
Most landlords are normies that happen to own one or two extra homes. How could these people meaningfully "exploit economic conditions"?