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Recent Examples of slumlordWhen a mentally disturbed neighbor sets herself on fire and a slumlord tries to extort money from them, the family gets tangled in the corruption that keeps a stranglehold on the slum’s inhabitants.—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025 The Blue Bloods and Sopranos vet will recur in Paramount+ With Showtime’s Dexter: Resurrection as Vinny, a greedy slumlord, our sister site Variety reports.—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 17 Mar. 2025 The show shares its title with a recent biopic starring Sebastian Stan that depicts the president as a slumlord, rising to real estate mogul status with the use of ruthless strategy, impressed on him by closeted gay lawyer Roy Cohn.—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025 Victor finds work as a rent collector for a Jewish slumlord, Peter Feldman, the aforementioned Holocaust survivor.—Zachary Lazar, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slumlord
The landlord, Monty Summers — who sold the building in 2023 to Somera Road, a New York developer that is investing $500 million in West Bottoms revitalization, but continues managing it — hung up when asked about his tenant.
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David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
2 Oct. 2025
Advertisement In 1963, the Shah introduced land reforms to modernize the countryside by redistributing large estates to small farmers, breaking up control of feudal landlords, and promoting mechanized farming with state credit.
The struggling budget airline has reached an agreement with some of its debtholders for up to $475 million in debtor-in-possession financing, a lifeline that bankrupt companies can use to continue operating, as well as $150 million from a major aircraft lessor, Huebner said.
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Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
This is a compelling approach, as the lessor traditionally owns residual risk in an automotive lease transaction.
After all, nearly half of all households in the city — 102,850 of them — are renter-occupied and come with an average rent price of $1,849 as of August 2025, according to RentCafe.
The Hunt After years of diligent saving, a longtime renter with a $300,000 budget weighed whether to take his parents’ advice and return to his childhood building in Elmhurst, or branch out.
The majority of the easements for the existing state trail corridor were acquired between 2007 and 2010 following consideration of potential options, community support and landowner interest, Skaar said.
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Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
20 Sep. 2025
The MooresviIle Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a longtime landowner’s request Monday night to build 107 homes, geared to ages 55 and older, on 55 of the acres her family farmed for generations.
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