This is a weird conspiracy theory. You'd have to believe that real estate investors were pulling the strings in companies to get them to spend more money with no upside. Like they're just milking these companies for rent and the companies are doing it because they want to give money to the real estate investors?

Even in the rare case where real estate investors are also investors in the startup, my experience is that the startup gets reduced-rate rent as a bonus.

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alserio 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Not a startup, but real estate investors have a good chunk of shares of the company where I work and they can influence the decision makers just fine

	▲	Aurornis 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't doubt what you're saying, but I don't these situations where real estate investors and company investors overlap and also want to micromanage the company's operations are common. The way this is brought up as a general explanation for RTO across the industry is getting a little silly