landlordship

Property owner status

The state or position of being a landlord—one who owns and rents out property.

Landlordship carries connotations of the responsibilities, rights, and sometimes the burdens that come with managing rental property: He found that landlordship meant constant phone calls about broken appliances.

The term can also suggest the social or economic status associated with property ownership.

ownership

proprietorship

Sole-owner business entity

  • titleFormal honorific or name
  • deedWritten property conveyance
  • freeholdPermanent property title

holdings · estate · equity · possession · assets · acquisition · inheritance · entitlement · portfolio · domain

tenancy

lease

Temporary use contract

  • tenantOne who rents property
  • rentPayment for temporary use
  • evictionForced departure from rental

occupancy · deposit · arrears · subletting · leasehold · renewal · notice · agreement · lessee · screening

property

estate

Property and grounds

apartments · buildings · tenements · grounds · dwellings · manor · acreage · housing · flats · bedsits

authority

control

Authority to direct

jurisdiction · dominion · supervision · stewardship · administration · rule · power · regulation · command · direction

Categories
Opposites
property role/status

landlordshiptenancy

Renter's period of residence

tenantship · leaseholding · occupancy · lodging · subletting

property ownership

landlordshiplandlessness

Lacking owned territory

propertylessness · homelessness · dispossession · tenantry

Family

land, lord, landed, landlord, lords, lordly, landlady, lording, landlords

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