What's the difference between lodger and tenant?

Lodger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
  • (2) But as "excluded occupiers" without tenancies, lodgers have very few rights and can be easily evicted if something goes wrong (the landlord only has to give "reasonable notice").
  • (3) Get a lodger in If it's just your clothes horse that lives in the spare room, consider getting in a real person.
  • (4) Last year his mother, her boyfriend and their lodger were convicted of causing or allowing his death.
  • (5) "The government is advising these families to consider taking in a lodger to make up the financial shortfall, but none of these families have a spare room available because the rooms are already being used.
  • (6) The rise of the landlord-lodger arrangement could help utilise the estimated 15 million unused bedrooms in England alone, giving renters more options and helping squeezed families and retirees cope with the higher cost of living.
  • (7) The idea of taking in a lodger is as old as the hills, but there are now a host of other ways to make a bit of money out of allowing people to stay in your home – on terms that suit your needs and lifestyle.
  • (8) Other support includes advising on handling debt and avoiding payday loan companies; working with the local credit union; looking at ways to increase self-esteem, confidence and employability skills to help residents secure employment; helping vulnerable people fill in forms; and discussing options such as taking in a lodger.
  • (9) A lodger can occupy a single room or an entire floor of your home.
  • (10) According to the latest figures from insurance firm LV=, the number of people renting a spare room has nearly doubled in the past five years: 2.7% of UK homeowners now have a lodger, compared with 1.4% in 2009.
  • (11) The plumber and gas engineer became a lodger in London after splitting up with a girlfriend over a year ago.
  • (12) Theresa May's scheme requiring all private landlords to check the immigration status of new tenants and lodgers has run straight into trouble with the Liberal Democrats , who have voiced concerns that it will increase homelessness and drive migrants underground into the hands of unscrupulous landlords.
  • (13) The last place I was a lodger wasn't a great - a little bit cold and regimental.
  • (14) Housing charity Shelter is backing calls to raise the threshold to £7,500 to match the reality of today's rents (the average annual rent for a room let to a lodger stands at £5,593, rising to £7,667 in London).
  • (15) Homeowners will be able to receive as much as £7,500 in rent from lodgers without having to pay tax, compared with the current ‘rent a room’ limit of £4,250.
  • (16) The family is planning to use the loft area as an extra bedroom for a lodger to raise money.
  • (17) Yet a growing number of homeowners are enjoying a tax-free income boost by taking in a lodger.
  • (18) A woman who spent a week in prison separated from her two young children after she handled a pair of shorts looted from Manchester city centre by her lodger during the riots has been freed on appeal.
  • (19) Opening the case, Michael Morley said Nevin – who has no previous convictions – had the "misfortune" to have Gemma Corbett as a lodger.
  • (20) This means that just over 70% of your before-tax salary would be going on mortgage repayments which doesn't leave much change for other bills even taking into account rent from a lodger and possible maintenance payments for your children from your ex.

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.