Tenants Quotes

I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen.

You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.

The entire tenant system operated by coercion and dependence. Landowners did not want their tenants to improve, because then they would have less control over them. A hungry worker was the best worker, or so many southern cotton growers believed. No one—neither tenants nor their landlords—had any problem making children and women work in the fields.

Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

This farm I trust will not be tenanted by any man …. If such a traitor to your cause enters this part of the country, … keep your eyes fixed upon him—point him our—and if a pig of his falls into a boghole, let it lie there.

The real question at issue is the improvement of the social and moral condition of the masses of the population; we wish to elevate in the gradation of society that great class which gains its support by manual labour. The mere interests of the landlords and occupying tenants, important as they are, are subordinate …

if anyone was evicted it was the duty of his fellows to assemble in their thousands and reinstate him the next day

Eviction is a cause, not just a condition of poverty.

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

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

Shun the man who bids for a farm from which a tenant has been evicted. Shun him in the street, in the shop, in the marketplace, even in the place of worship, as if he were a leper of old.

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.

Black tenants smell and attract vermin.

There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.

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.