Landlord-Tenant Relations Quotes

The interest of the landlords is always opposed to the interest of every other class in the community.

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).

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

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

We are not ready to accede to a principle of legislation by which the State shall take into its own hands the valuation of rent throughout Ireland.

Truly is the dawn of freedom appearing - truly the emancipation of the tenant farmers of Ireland. The south is awakening, slowly but surely.

I grew up in constant fear of eviction.

I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell

If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants.

I want to buy up a gang of properties in my neighborhood and give people the chance to live in new buildings. We should make our areas nice.

If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.

An astonishing disengagement from reality is necessary to actually believe there is something sinister about protecting people's homes from invasion through squatting.

If you look at the American Household Survey, the last time we did that in 2013, renters in over 2.8 million homes thought they would be evicted soon.

I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

There isn't profit to be made off low-rent housing, and it's time we acknowledge that, instead of perverting a system around maintaining private ownership.

I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.

I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.