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Quotes About Rent

Exercise was the rent the body charged for granting the mind space.
~ John Jackson Miller
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
~ Lauren Bacall
The battles rent the skies: the air itself burned, and gods clawed the flesh from each other's bones.
~ Madeline Miller
through our forwardness to suppress, and our backwardness to recover any enthralled piece of truth out of the gripe of custom, we care not to keep truth separated from truth, which is the fiercest rent and disunion of all.
~ John Milton
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
I've been sort of crabby lately. It's that time of the month again–the rent's due.
~ Margaret Smith
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Good for Warren Buffett that he can afford to do that! Some people, sometimes, need to finance a purchase or rent a car, and a credit card becomes a necessity.
~ Elizabeth Warren
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.
~ Mark Twain
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
~ Natalie Merchant
I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell.
~ Garry Shandling
And my parents finally realise that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: they rent out my room.
~ Woody Allen
In the deployment center, when I was standing there while Dr. Mensah explained why she didn't want to rent me as part of the bond guarantee agreement, she had called the increase in intelligence a "hellish compromise.
~ Martha Wells
The Law of Rent demonstrates that no single human being gives land and location its overall value - its rent. Land values arise from the wealth that exists in the surrounding area, wealth that we have created together and continue to create in cooperation and in competition with one another.
~ Unknown
Since people can only be paid for their goods and services or extract rent from society, less income is available to service the payment of goods and services when proportionally more income is used to pay monopolized rent for land. Essentially, whenever property owners collect rent from rising land values, fewer financial resources are left over for wages and capital investments, and this dynamic can effectively put society on the fast track toward social decline and wealth inequality.
~ Unknown
The financial alternative to classical economics calls itself "neoliberalism," but it is the opposite of what the Enlightenment's original liberal reformers called themselves. Land rent has not ended up in government hands, and more and more public services have been privatized to squeeze out monopoly rent. Banks have gained control of government and their central banks to create money only to bail out creditor losses, not to finance public spending.
~ Michael Hudson
demonstrate that taxing rent re-captures for society the natural resource patrimony and rising site value. This rental valuation is created not by landlord efforts but by society's overall prosperity and public investment in transportation systems, schools and other infrastructure that define "location, location and location.
~ Michael Hudson
free market required public regulation to keep predatory finance and rent seeking in check, and to keep basic infastructure in the public domain.
~ Michael Hudson
In fact, they are not taught in any university departments: the dynamics of debt, and how the pattern of bank lending inflates land prices, or national income accounting and the rising share absorbed by rent extraction in the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector. There was only one way to learn how to analyze these topics: to work for banks. Back in the 1960s there was barely a hint that these trends would become a great financial bubble.
~ Michael Hudson
He had lost patience with his father's strategy of catering to lower- and middle-income residents of Brooklyn and Queens, and what was required to manage them. When he found tenants throwing trash out of the windows, he began a program "to teach people about using the incinerators." Company employees warned him that he was "liable to get shot" if he tried to collect rent at the wrong time.
~ Unknown
NEVER Rent to Family, In Laws, Outlaws, Friends, or Vendors There's just too much at risk.
~ Unknown
Beware of the applicant waving cash. The odds are the cash they're waving under your nose belongs to their current landlord.
~ Unknown
Evictions—NEVER Tell your tenant YOU will file an eviction notice. ALWAYS tell your tenant that you, Wally and Beaver, will cause their own eviction because they have not paid their rent.
~ Unknown
Most states include language stating if a landlord accepts any partial payments of rent after the landlord has started the eviction process, the accepted partial payment of rent will KILL and cancel the landlord's pending eviction action.
~ Unknown