If you're providing a service (market research, management, inventory, whatever), then you're contributing. And so, you can and should receive a share of the sales.
The same thing actually holds true for rentals! Some landlords organize services and maintenance for their renters. For example, one place I lived, I didn't have to independently set up water service, and if my electricity went out, I called the landlord and she had someone come fix it without me having to make the appointments or the electrician directly.
However, a great many landlords (not all, but too many), do not provide such a service.
I'll give another personal example here. When I was 20, I was moved 700 miles away for work. I had 2 days in the middle of the week to find a place to live. There was exactly one place available in town. My choice was lease that place, or sleep on the streets. It was hurricane season, and sleeping on the streets is a great way to die during hurricane season. So I rented the place.
The land lord did absolutely nothing for me, save for conspicuously carry a gun whenever I dropped off my rent. When my heat went out that winter, she both refused to call an hvac tech, and shot at the one I called. It was several degrees below freezing in my home for weeks. When a neighbor--also renting from her--shot bullets through my wall, she turned away the police when they arrived and charged me an extra month's rent for the damage to her property. When the toilet broke, she refused to let a plumber in the property, and had her brother "fix" it. He unhooked the pipe to the sewer line, so the toilet waste dumped directly onto the ground below the house, damaging the foundation and being a severe biohazard. I found out about that months later when she charged me for the repairs and cleaning crew. When I tried to sue for the right to break my lease and leave, she charged me an additional 3 months rent instead.
While I was living there, she actively made my life harder to live, and charged money for it. She provided no service, not even the service of building the home, cause she bought the property at an auction from the state years prior.
And that nightmare of a rental experience is painfully common, though not universal. Many land lords provide the service of keeping a space liveable for their clients.
Many do not.
But, to return to the initial subject : coordination and management, as well as research, are valuable services to provide. They are distinct from sitting in a room hundreds of miles away and receiving money for doing nothing at all.
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Date: 2019-02-26 06:51 am (UTC)The same thing actually holds true for rentals! Some landlords organize services and maintenance for their renters. For example, one place I lived, I didn't have to independently set up water service, and if my electricity went out, I called the landlord and she had someone come fix it without me having to make the appointments or the electrician directly.
However, a great many landlords (not all, but too many), do not provide such a service.
I'll give another personal example here. When I was 20, I was moved 700 miles away for work. I had 2 days in the middle of the week to find a place to live. There was exactly one place available in town. My choice was lease that place, or sleep on the streets. It was hurricane season, and sleeping on the streets is a great way to die during hurricane season. So I rented the place.
The land lord did absolutely nothing for me, save for conspicuously carry a gun whenever I dropped off my rent. When my heat went out that winter, she both refused to call an hvac tech, and shot at the one I called. It was several degrees below freezing in my home for weeks. When a neighbor--also renting from her--shot bullets through my wall, she turned away the police when they arrived and charged me an extra month's rent for the damage to her property. When the toilet broke, she refused to let a plumber in the property, and had her brother "fix" it. He unhooked the pipe to the sewer line, so the toilet waste dumped directly onto the ground below the house, damaging the foundation and being a severe biohazard. I found out about that months later when she charged me for the repairs and cleaning crew. When I tried to sue for the right to break my lease and leave, she charged me an additional 3 months rent instead.
While I was living there, she actively made my life harder to live, and charged money for it. She provided no service, not even the service of building the home, cause she bought the property at an auction from the state years prior.
And that nightmare of a rental experience is painfully common, though not universal. Many land lords provide the service of keeping a space liveable for their clients.
Many do not.
But, to return to the initial subject : coordination and management, as well as research, are valuable services to provide. They are distinct from sitting in a room hundreds of miles away and receiving money for doing nothing at all.