What's the difference between renter and tenant?

Renter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
  • (v. t.) To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
  • (v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) LCP said one- and two-bedroom flats in the centre of the city were popular with corporate renters and international students, and that demand was fuelling rental growth.
  • (2) There is no evidence that buying a house means you personallly lose your job a couple of years down the line, which suggests Britons will not easily be turned on by the idea of becoming a nation of renters.
  • (3) The paradox is that while Fergus and Judith Wilson can evict 200 benefit-receiving tenants in their Kent buy-to-let empire, confident they will be replaced by working renters, many from eastern Europe, in other places landlords are heavily reliant on benefits.
  • (4) The group, which campaigns for more affordable housing, used the English Housing Survey's income profile of private renters, and the Office for National Statistics' latest house price index, to work out how many people could afford the average first home, based on the assumption that a home is affordable if it is no more than four times household income.
  • (5) Other politicians think all housing problems can be tackled by simply building more houses, but Corbyn has recognised that this alone won’t give private renters the rights they need.” Both Corbyn and Healey made clear that housing is the biggest problem facing the UK, and committed to policies that many in the housing sector have been long argued for.
  • (6) Private renters account for more than 20% of the housing market; in 1985 the figure was 9% .
  • (7) A lack of rights for private renters puts them at risk of sudden eviction, even if they are up to date with the rent.
  • (8) In 2002, 100,000 private renters in London were forced to claim housing benefit in order to pay the rent; by the end of the New Labour era, rising rents had increased the number to 250,000.
  • (9) The Resolution Foundation thinktank has warned that the under-35s are becoming permanent renters , with home ownership reserved for the well-off and elderly.
  • (10) In the rest of Europe, Berlin still enjoys a reputation as a renters' paradise.
  • (11) We need to bring an end to these extortionate prices and give people real choices, by building the homes this nation needs.” UK tenants pay more rent than any country in Europe Read more Roger Harding for the housing charity Shelter said private renters “are bearing the brunt of our dramatic housing shortage”.
  • (12) Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams Read more “I used to be able to pay my rent for the whole month just by working one shift as a waiter,” he said of his housing situation in 2003, when he lived in a shared flat in a now very desirable neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Kreuzberg.
  • (13) Scrapping funding for these projects would impact low-income households and renters and public housing users who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to their own panels, head of the Australian Solar Council, John Grimes, told Guardian Australia.
  • (14) 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.
  • (15) Families in the UK pay an average £6,760 a year in housing costs alone, with mortgaged homeowners paying £7,436 compared to £8,320 for private renters, according to the 2010-11 English Housing Survey.
  • (16) Alex Hilton, director of Generation Rent, said: “As home ownership gets increasingly out of reach, ever more people will find themselves as permanent renters throughout their lives.
  • (17) For those of us who want a fairer deal for renters, this feels a lot like Groundhog Day – with the joke very much on us.
  • (18) Britain has up to 11 million private renters, often being charged rip-off rents and deprived of basic housing security.
  • (19) Ministers say the change tackles an unfair spare room subsidy not available to private-sector renters and suggest it will save around £500m a year as part of the government's deficit-reduction strategy.
  • (20) Banning upfront letting agency fees Facebook Twitter Pinterest To Let Signs on New Housing, houses, homes, houses for rent Photograph: Alamy Widely trailed as a plan to help “just about managing’ familes, the government’s plan to ban spiralling letting agency fees will benefit renters if it is introduced as planned.

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.