Tadden, it's got the code it's going to launch.

It's a unit system.

I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park.

It tells her everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

Eagle one.

The package is being delivered.

Landlords, most of us have to deal with them.

They can be nosy, weird, evasive, lazy?

The best kind of landlords tend to be the ones that are hands off.

What if I told you that you can look forward to a bright future of automated landlords? Robot landlords tend to be the ones that are hands off. What if I told you that you can look forward to a bright

future of automated landlords, robot landlords tending to their rental properties with a cool

and callous algorithmic hand? That impersonal future is here now. With us today to talk about it is

Nick Kepler. Kepler is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Daily Beast, and of course, Vice.

His latest is at Motherboard, and it is robot landlords are buying up houses.

Nick, thank you so much for coming onto the show and walking us through this today.

Thank you for having me.

All right, so can you tell me the, there's a pretty striking scene that you set at the beginning of this.

Can you kind of walk me through how this piece opens?

Sure.

Well, there's a company called Imagine Homes that's been buying up properties in a few cities, Midwestern cities,

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