Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
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.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
Relationships are full of compromises.
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.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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