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  Competent and decent land managers maintain their properties and ensure their tenants are safe- and, if there is a safety issue, work quickly to address it. It's not like they just buy up the land, do nothing, and get rich. They have to put in time and money to make their property a place people actually want to live and if they own, say, an apartment building that's not easy or cheap.
  
  I think you're conflating 2 different jobs here, perhaps because your uncle combines them. 
  Think of your large corporate landlord. Those investors do not manage anything themselves, they have hired people for that. So, what seems like 1 job is actually 2 jobs.    
  
  The position of landlord, where you extract rent from properties purely by virtue of owning it.    
  The position of land manager/custodian/whatever, where you extract rent for properties for services rendered.    
  
  Now, when those 2 positions are done by the same people, it's easy to think that all rent is done for services rendered, but that's not the way other people look at this issue. 
  They see Custodianship as a minor part of the rent, and the majority of the rent as pure profitseeking for no services rendered.
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