Landlord-Tenant Relationship Quotes

Never have I got on better with my flatmates than when our landlord installed a dodgy deadlock and locked us out of our flat for a full Friday evening.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

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

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.

My family never owned a home. We leased.

We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.

2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

The land is Mine.

I have great tenants. They've all become my friends. They call me and say, 'Hey Kev, we've got a drip!'

At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

My grandmother was a sharecropper. That wasn't even that long ago! My grandma was a sharecropper.

Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

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

The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.

If my countrymen should ever wish for the honour of having among them a gentry enormously wealthy, let them sell their Farms & pay rack's rents; the Scale of the Landlords will rise as the tenants is depress'd, who will soon become poor, tattered, dirty and abject in Spirit.

Having an awful landlord can be a good thing, it can bring you together as a household.

Frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can't afford a home to buy.

I didn't come from a real estate background originally. I was going to school for business and was struggling to find a place to live because there weren't enough rental properties available to students.

As long as you have your own apartment and you can pretty much make rent for the next year, you're golden!

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

And yet we are but tenants. Let us assure ourselves of this, and then it will not be so hard to make room for the new administration; for shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.

I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.

In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.