Salt Lake City has this, I believe. If you're in the COLDS (never noticed this acronym before!) then you might well be working for the church, banking with the church, and renting from the church.

In my (UK-centric) experience it is largely the rental companies that make renting a nightmare. Back when I was a renter I would always look for private landlords when moving house as they were often more reasonable and responsive. Big rental companies would respond slowly, issue exorbitant fees, demand professional end-of-tenancy cleaning, and screw you on pre-existing damage if you don't point it out in time.

Small landlords can be really good or really bad, big landlords are universally mediocre to bad.