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landlord

[land-lawrd] / ˈlændˌlɔrd /


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In an October letter to the landlord, a small-business lender and four MCA funders, the lawyer said Triways owed the MCAs more than $700,000, and its net operating income was about $120,000 after rent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“If a tenant of mine wanted a panel, I would deny it,” one landlord wrote in the comments of a recent L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Sue stresses that she supports the aim of the legislation to give tenants greater security and that students should be able to move out if their landlord is not carrying out repairs.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

"There's hardly anything available," said Laura Alonso, 26, who scrambled to find a new home with her partner in August after their landlord gave them notice.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

It was about this couple and they had this landlord who lived upstairs who was supposed to be Chinese or something.

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson

There have been some efforts to require landlords to cool down their units.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

She said she'd seen landlords who decided to sell their property because of the amount of tax but tenants couldn't afford to buy the homes.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Rents shot up in Springfield, and landlords loved it.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Property owners say solar panels on balconies and fences could affect their insurance, while renters worry that landlords could set their insurance liability requirements so high it would make the panels cost prohibitive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, landlords in central and Southern China had an almost completely hands-off relationship with their tenants: they would collect a fixed rent and let farmers go about their business.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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