landlord
Example Sentences
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Police found the character actor in his Lower East Side apartment, Deadline reported, after neighbors heard Christmas music playing for days and one of them called authorities and the landlord for a wellness check.
From Los Angeles Times
A once proud, close-knit community has been left to the vagaries of absentee landlords, rising deprivation and residents who often don't want to be here.
From BBC
In 1994, when Boston and neighboring Brookline and Cambridge all had some form of limits on rent hikes, voters banned the practice via ballot measure following a contentious campaign led by small landlords.
"The landlords in this building pay rates, tenants in the building work and pay their taxes. We need to live in a secure home, feeling safe and live peacefully," Chandran said.
From BBC
Core was already contending with a crop of upstart private clubs crowding its turf as well as a nasty legal fight with its landlord.
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