landlord
A landlord is a curious profession that entrusts living spaces to tenants and then, at month’s end, stealthily collects sacrifices under the name of rent. They feign attentive service to repair requests while seizing any opportunity to assert their contractual authority. Declaring themselves benevolent managers, they nonetheless show no mercy in dispatching invoices and reminders. The true work of a landlord is to provide tenants with a semblance of security while delivering more tension than they bargained for.