Landlord-Tenant Law Quotes

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.

If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain, your own sovereignty. Trouble is, so much of the choice land - the land where all the people are - is already owned by someone else: By Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Apple (in apps, anyway).

I'm a real estate guy.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in the housing market. A lot of landlords turn folks away who have an eviction, and a lot of public housing authorities do the same.

We do not ever want our land policy to be shaped so as to create a big class of proprietors who rent to others..

Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.

I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records.

Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.

Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.

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In no state in America is it legal for a landlord to demand their tenants lead a "healthy lifestyle" in order to rent property.

It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.

Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.

Fighting for tenants' rights has never been about political posturing for me. It's very personal. It's why I fight for everyone who's struggling to stay in San Francisco.

Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

All New Yorkers have the right to decent housing, regardless of income and rent.

If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.