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The following information comes from a SAJE report:

A corporate landlord is a landlord who uses a corporate business entity such as a limited liability partnership (LP, LLP), corporation (Inc., Corp.), or other structure eligible for taxation or pass-through status as an investment vehicle for owning and managing property.¹¹ —Beyond Wall Street Landlords:…

The data reveal investor activity[in Altadena] is not confined to isolated purchases but rather is part of an emergent acquisition strategy with potential to reshape the housing market block by block.

Investor-owners tend to employ a range of extractive and destabilizing practices, leading to higher eviction rates, slum conditions, rising rents, and neglect. Fast, frequent evictions are often central to the corporate housing business model, used as a tool to cycle tenants in and out to drive rents up.¹ Corporate landlords also often employ “milking strategies,” maximize revenue by deferring maintenance, and use limited liability structures to obscure ownership and avoid accountability. Corporate forms like LLCs and LPs allow landlords to operate behind layers of legal protection and secrecy, enabling tax avoidance, speculation, and tenant harassment while shielding beneficiaries from oversight. These harms are not isolated incidents but the structural outcomes of treating housing as a financial asset rather than as a social good.