rack-rent
Gouging tenant fees
Rack-rent is rent set at or near the full annual value of a property—the maximum a landlord can extract.
The term implies exploitation, squeezing tenants for every possible penny: Irish tenants paid rack-rents to absentee English landlords.
As a verb, to rack-rent is to charge such excessive amounts.
The rack suggests the torture device—stretching payment to the breaking point.
Unreasonably high, as costs
- exploitativeUnfairly using others' vulnerabilities
- oppressiveUnjustly harsh or stifling
- predatoryExploiting the vulnerable
- usuriousCharging excessive interest
gouging · profiteering · unconscionable · rapacious · merciless · excessive · inflated · steep
exorbitant
Unreasonably high, as costs
- exploitativeUnfairly using others' vulnerabilities
- oppressiveUnjustly harsh or stifling
- predatoryExploiting the vulnerable
usurious · gouging · profiteering · unconscionable · rapacious · merciless · excessive · inflated · steep · extortionate
landlord
Property owner renting out
arrears · slumlord · absentee · property · lease · occupancy · dwelling · lodger · premises · housing
rack-rentfair rent
Non-exploitative housing cost
affordable rent · subsidized rent · ground rent · rent-free · market rent
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