What is "rents"

Usage examples of "rents".

The middleman is that handy person, to the landlord, who assures him of a certain income from his property by buying certain rents at a deduction of 30 or 40 per cent.

What will occur in November it is unnecessary to predict, but it may be remarked, by the way, that the Irish landlord, whose rents do not overlap each other, is in an exceptionally fortunate position.

To begin with, the idea of blood being shed in order that Miss Gardiner might get in her rents appeared utterly preposterous.

Westport Fair, at which I was glad to discover more outward evidence of prosperity than had yet come under my observation in this part of Ireland, the landlords and their agents are determined to make another effort to get in their rents in January.

It is nearly as impossible to extract any rent from them as from the twenty-three families on Innisturk, an island belonging to Lord Lucan, whose rents are farmed, so far as Innisturk is concerned, by Mr.

I hear that for the last year rents have fallen into arrear, and that the beasts of those who have not paid up have just been driven off the mountain.

The great landlords of this county are less attacked than others by popular orators, mainly because their rents are not exorbitantly high in the first place.

Now, mortgagees in Dublin or London are not at all ready to take into account the difficulty of collecting rents in Connaught, and insist on being paid.

But the settlements must be paid, and as no rents are coming in, dowagers are obdurate, and the landlord lives well up to his means, times are hard just now in county Clare.

He also talked a great deal about fair rents and the compulsion that farmers are under to pay anything that their landlords choose to ask.

Clasping its gray rents with a verdurous woof, A hanging dome of leaves, a canopy moon-proof.

He rents a cabin on the other side of the lake, keeps to himself, mostly.

The rents paid for such quarters are enormous, and the buildings yield their owners large incomes every year.

They herd here because the rents of single houses are either out of proportion to, or beyond their means, and because they are convenient to their work.

As pecuniary investments they pay well, the rents sometimes yielding as much as thirty per cent.