What's the difference between leaseholder and tenant?
Leaseholder
Definition:
(n.) A tenant under a lease.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the company is facing a loss of business as leaseholders seek to recover service charges or replace it as manager at LVTs.
(2) If students are renting out a leasehold flat, they don’t care how much noise they make.
(3) Two refused to make any payment to secure business, one claiming such an arrangement would "contravene the rules and be unfair to leaseholders".
(4) The slums will be easier to shift out than the formal leaseholders, according to sources on the panel.
(5) There have long been calls for an overhaul, or at least regulation, of the leasehold sector.
(6) His first step was to bring the residents together so he could bring a leasehold valuation tribunal (LVT) case against the freeholder and property manager.
(7) My proudest achievement since the 2001 general election: New legislation which protects leaseholders from being dictated to over which insurance company they use.
(8) It is better that it will now be covering the whole of the leasehold sector."
(9) This is where you and the other leaseholders take over the management responsibilities – organising repairs, gardening and maintenance, but not collecting the rent – from the landlord or management company.
(10) Leaseholds started in the 1850s had five or 10 years left to run, the property was unsellable, no one would repair it.
(11) Outright sales have been ruled out because the returns for the Greek state wouldn’t be higher than a leasehold arrangement, he said.
(12) At an LVT, leaseholders have a choice – they can dispute individual service charges and assessments, ask the tribunal to appoint a different manager, or try to take over the management of their block themselves using the "right-to-manage" process.
(13) John James, the managing director of Soho Estates faced the loud-hailer wielding women outside the firm's offices, assuring them that he "had no problem with this type of work" but had no choice but to inform the leaseholder of the flats that they could lose their lease if they were to allow "immoral activities", after Soho Estates was issued with an enforcement notice by police.
(14) It also left £65m of cash in the business, later increased to £74m, as well as about £100m of freehold and long leaseholds.
(15) In the coming months, a tribunal will hear a £2.6m claim for overcharging alleged by more than 300 leaseholders at the striking St George Wharf development on the river Thames.
(16) Another option is for leaseholders collectively to exercise their "right to manage".
(17) An alternative option for leaseholders who think they are being overcharged is to take their case to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT), which adjudicates on whether service charges, including insurance costs, are "reasonably incurred".
(18) First-timer buyers desperate to scramble on to the property ladder should be wary of leasehold flats, as this form of "ownership" is no more than an extended rental that might seem cheaper, but can cost you dear in the end, experts warn.
(19) "That's our biggest challenge – maintaining standards while making it seem as though nothing has changed," said John Singer, the island's current leaseholder.
(20) "Ending the current sale process and looking for a leasehold solution will remove the uncertainty and allows us to help secure the future use of the stadium with more confidence."
Tenant
Definition:
(n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
(n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
(v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(2) They also claim their electricity and water were cut off, despite frequent official complaints to police, who Lessena said served as middlemen between the owners and the tenants.
(3) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
(4) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
(5) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.
(6) A separate DWP-commissioned report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies , on the impact of housing benefit caps for private sector tenants was welcomed by ministers as a sign that fears that the reform would lead to mass migration out of high-rent areas like London were unfounded.
(7) The average housing benefit withdrawal varies across the country, with the figure reaching £15.64 a week in Birmingham, £19 in Hertfordshire and £24 in Wandsworth; a total of 55,000 tenants have had housing benefit withdrawn in London.
(8) • Plans to consult on increasing discounts under right to buy – the scheme which allows social housing tenants to buy their properties.
(9) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(10) RBH's first membership meeting, at which tenants and employees could sign up to join the mutual, was oversubscribed.
(11) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
(12) It also represents the legalisation of a two-tiered system of tenants' rights – those who can afford to have rights and those who can't."
(13) Lord Freud said government research suggested receiving housing welfare payments direct would be entirely new for only around 20% of tenants, and the pilot projects will evaluate how to support these people.
(14) After a one-year interval, a structured interview designed to assess the quality of life was again conducted with most of the tenants in a single-room occupancy hotel in New York City.
(15) Phil Morgan, director, Phil Morgan Consulting Phil is the former executive director of tenant services at the Tenant Services Authority.
(16) Getting the tenant out does not avoid the need for compliance.
(17) Every tenant's story is different, but there are a number of strands that feature regularly among complaints.
(18) And it says the eligibility of his tenant to live in the flat has never been assessed.
(19) Many tenants feel they have been given far too little information about their rights, with very few knowing they have a right to appeal against decisions about withdrawal of housing benefit until April 2014.
(20) It is critical that landlords and government think deeply about the evident anxiety tenants have about receiving their rent directly,” the report warns.