sitting tenant

Look the market's not very good I know but we're sitting tenants.

Bear in mind that commercial properties with sitting tenants are likely to cost more, but come at a lower risk.

Think of me as a sitting tenant with a really long lease."

I think half the people who've come to see the house suspect I'm a sitting tenant.'

If a sitting tenant does not want to spend the money for the improvements, however, landlords almost never make them.

He'd be a fool to let it go for under sixteen even to a sitting tenant."

Between 1979 and 1990, 1,250,000 council houses, or about 20 per cent of the total stock, was sold to sitting tenants.

As sitting tenants we get first refusal, but he must know by next Monday whether we're interested."

A sitting tenant who came with the greenhouses.and is doing his bit to keep down the slugs.

Feed the sitting tenants to act as a diversion when adding new fish to an aquarium.

After 1979 the Conservatives forced local authorities to sell their houses and flats to sitting tenants.

The landlords interviewed all agreed that their first choice was to keep the sitting tenant - but at a higher rent.

The sale of council housing to sitting tenants is a national initiative and local authorities have been under pressure to carry it through.

I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so, as a sitting tenant, my rent was pretty cheap.

It subsequently turned out that it was the sitting tenants who were in danger of harassment.

Farms were generally sold to the sitting tenant or to their neighbours who wished to expand.

The woman, known only as Miss X to councillors, bought the house with her father, the sitting tenant, over a year ago.

In 1916 the whole village was sold by the Longford Estate, mainly to sitting tenants.

The scheme would be aimed mainly at sitting tenants and could double the number of people who had bought council houses in Darlington.

Landlords also began to offer long leases to sitting tenants sometimes at considerable discounts to open-market values.

They'll be the landlords that bought the house long ago, have a good sitting tenant, and might not have upped the rent for a while.

Crouch again insisted that the successors of the original owners must be able to repurchase their land, sitting tenant or no.

Because of the sitting tenants, the only part that is accessible is the ground floor, where the Macagnones have their cafe.

I can't have sitting tenants.

Moreover, as sitting tenants, they by the same legislation entitled to renew indefi- ay.