Landlord Quotations

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.

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.

The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

The people who can least afford it sign up for these loans. Adjust your withholding, talk to your landlord or borrow from your mother--almost anything is better than one of these loans.

There are certain housing codes, building codes that the landlord is required by law to adhere to, but generally speaking the landlord should be expected to maintain the apartment in such a manner that it is fit to be lived in. Tenants are entitled to heat, running water, freedom from insects, rodents, mildew and mold, a roof that doesn't leak and windows that don't leak.

We were bothered by the staff time taken up by being in the landlord business. Some of (our) resources we were having to expend on ourselves to stay in the landlord business; ... it's a good thing for everybody.

When two months were up, I called his landlord. His landlord said he hadn't paid his rent and no one in the neighborhood had seen him.

Somebody knows him. He's somewhere. I believe he's in the Bay area and he has a neighbor, a landlord or maybe someone who doesn't like him that much that might want that reward.

I found a landlord who would work with me to establish my business.

If a landlord is insisting on getting cash, that should be ringing alarm bells for people.

It is not easy to steal where the landlord is a thief

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

Robert Rodriguez has a new landlord -- and it's the school children of Texas. This agreement earns a solid return for the state's Permanent School Fund and is yet another example of the innovative ways the Land Office is making money for public schools.

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.

We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

We believed we had a deal with the landlord and even had the paperwork drawn up.

We don't owe anybody anything, ... That's what my grandfather always told us: Don't partner with a landlord and don't owe on the inventory.

The sale of the building is truly a milestone for our organization. It's been the goal of the board to get out of the landlord business." ()

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

That is a ridiculous accusation by an irate landlord who is obviously upset that his ride on the gravy train is coming to an end.

Once a student is in a lease and is having a problem I suggest they advise the landlord of the problem and confirm it in writing. You are creating evidence documenting when they were told, what they were told and what they said they would do. Before you can file suit against a landlord, you have to notify the landlord and give them a chance to correct the problem.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

The landlord will trusts his guests as he trusts himself

The landlord was not able to deliver an access point to Route 9 as stipulated. At this time we are no longer pursuing a location at that site.

The landlord told me that I had too many people after me. Then he showed me an 18-page credit report.

The landlord owns the property and ought to be maintaining it in such a way that it is not depreciating in value. If it needs painted it ought to be painted. If trees need to be trimmed, they are trimmed.

I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.

If (Tyler) decides to leave and his landlord is willing to release him from his obligations, then Middlesex County might be willing to maintain the site for continuity's sake.

If you have a party and someone injures themselves in your apartment, they could also sue you for their own injuries. Or if you accidentally overflow the bathtub, your landlord could hold you responsible for damage to the property based on your negligence. That's another good reason to have insurance.

If you rent, the landlord gets the deduction.

I don't see the demand. We've been discussing that at our landlord meetings.

Go to the landlord and ask to see the bills and the methodology used to calculate and figure what you owe based on the bills you've received.

For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality.

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

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

The goal of the board is to get out of the landlord business." ()

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

Now Landlord Porter, grave, concise, severe, Master, nay, monarch in his proper sphere, Though to belles-lettres he pretended not, Lived close to Harvard, so knew what was what