One landlord demanded that Mr. Espirito Santo pay $300 a month for utilities in addition to a $500 credit check and application fee.
Around Halloween 2010, he received a note from his landlord demanding two months' back rent and ordering him to leave the apartment in three days, he said.
The state attorney general, Eliot L. Spitzer, said yesterday that he had sued a Westchester landlord, demanding that he evict a tenant convicted of drug offenses.
Jean returns to his Alphabet City tenement to find an angry landlord demanding his back rent, and departs with a painting he hopes to sell.
The Open Society Institute, an international pro-democracy foundation run by George Soros, a famous financier, closed its Moscow office after its landlord demanded a tenfold increase in rent and sent in a gang of thugs.
Sandra Munoz, who was recently named one of Boris Johnson's local volunteers of the year, faces having to leave her flat in Wandsworth, which is on a two-year tenancy, after her landlord demanded it back.
In this supercharged market, he said he had seen evidence of abuse: tenants' rights of first refusal have been ignored by landlords greedy for sweeter deals, and one landlord demanded a $5,000 fee, supposedly for legal services, before he would grant a lease.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A landlord demanding rent arrears threatened tenants and German police with a whirring chainsaw, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
Young, single students had been put on the streets when landlords sold properties, or because they had been unable to provide the rent guarantees private landlords demanded.
