I'm generally of the opinion that honesty and mutual cooperation with people are the path to a better future for everyone, but it must be noted that for this purpose neither your boss nor your landlord counts as a person.
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No. I strongly suspect my (good-to-excellent) experiences with landlords come down to having lived in small villages/towns a lot.
Yeah, that makes sense. I think there's also a distorting factor in how much property is worth. In a lot of big cities landlords know full well that the tenant's alternative is another landlord because they're entirely priced out of buying by needing a large deposit.
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And when that's the case, most landlords will be shitty because they can afford to be because it's a market for lemons (because even the good landlords cannot reliably signal their virtue). When the alternative of buying your own place exists that creates exit power for tenants.
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It's even more complicated than that, because shitty tenants also exist in extremely nonzero quantities, and will preferentially look for "nice" landlords whose feelings of empathy they can exploit.
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A bigger factor than property prices is how little slack is in the property market. The UK for example has such a tiny proportion of vacant homes (due to fear of blight) that landlords can be extremely shitty before it starts causing their properties to be left vacant.
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