Then, last winter, communications between the rectory and the arts center broke down over the church's proposal to redefine the relationship and put it on more traditional landlord-tenant terms.
The ecclesiastic system of copyhold, whereby land was leased to tenants for terms as short as seven years, prevailed throughout the manor.
Earnings based on short-term tenant leases at a company with largely short-term financing are riskier than those at a company with longer-term debt and whose tenants have long-term leases.
"Often you're stuck with the tenant and the terms of the tenant's lease," Ms. Steele said.
This land was then sold to tenants on favourable terms.
Mr. Whitmire could be Mr. Kagan's most reliable long-term tenant.
He hopes to find a long-term tenant for the other.
Spareroom.co.uk is good if you are looking a for a longer-term tenant.
There's no security and, even as a long-term tenant, you have few legal rights.
Like many others it is being offered as "currently occupied by a long-term tenant".
"I didn't even know about it," said Sarah*, a long-term tenant.
