Tenant Relations Research Articles

Making rent: how forced migrant families access private rental housing in the Biqa’ Valley, Lebanon

The private rental market is a key provider of housing to forced migrants. This paper examines qualitative data from case study research in rapidly urbanizing towns in the Biqa’ Valley, Lebanon, focusing on Syrian forced migrants’ efforts to access housing through the local private rental sector. Building on literature about landlord–tenant relations and anthropological work on kin, I argue that rental agreements ought to be understood as both financial and social arrangements, which involve family members, landlords and middlemen ( shaweesh) in complex rental ecologies. I find that young Syrians are caught up in evolving financial and social obligations, which make inhabitation possible, but which perpetuate gendered and xenophobic forms of dispossession. I argue that humanitarian and development actors advocating for the right of forced migrants to settle in urban areas ought to avoid perpetuating reliance on an inequitable private rental sector.

ANALISIS ARUS KAS SEBELUM DAN SESUDAH PANDEMI COVID-19 PADA BADAN PENGELOA TAMANSARI MAHOGANY APARTEMEN PERIODE 2019-2023

The purpose of this study was to compare the cash flow situation at the Tamansari Mahogany Apartment Management Agency before and after COVID-19. This study used a qualitative descriptive methodology based on cash flow data, gathering information through documentation and interviews with the chief financial officer, chief tenant relations officer, and building manager. The study's findings are as follows: 1) Cash flow in 2019 prior to COVID-19 Due to the poor occupancy rate and numerous unit handovers that were empty or unoccupied, Tamansari Mahogany Apartments saw decreased income in 2019;2) Cash flow in 2020–2022 during COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic caused many homes to be used as locations for self-isolation for people infected with the virus, which resulted in a rise in income for Tamansari Mahogany Apartments from 2020 to 2022. 3) Cash flow in in 2023 a COVID-19 after COVID-19 Because Tamansari Mahogany Apartments work with agents to boost occupancy compared to COVID-19, they have constant and growing income. Establishing a successful and efficient company plan and concentrating on the allocated budget are crucial for organizations.

Improvement of Perceived Value of Apartment: Strategic Analysis Using IPA, SWOT, and AHP

Background: After the covid 19 pandemic subsided, the world was faced with a global recession. The property industry experiences a downturn, especially in countries that are severely affected by the recession. However, the property business, in particular, apartments must continue to run and require a strategy to overcome this. Aim: The purpose of this study was to develop a strategy to increase perceived value using three methods of IPA, SWOT, and AHP. Method: The quantitative method uses 130 customer respondents. 30 for the reliability validity test and 100 for the main test on perceived value variables (functional, social, and emotional). Findings: The results of the IPA in quadrant A form the basis for making IFE and EFE strategies. IFE and EFE strategies are weighted to determine IFE and EFE matrices. Furthermore, a SWOT matrix was carried out to formulate concrete strategies based on SO, WO, ST, and WT. Strategies will be ranked using AHP. The strategy includes renovating the roof and repainting the facade of the building, using higher quality and durable building materials, holding service training for tenant relations and optimizing cleaning team SOPs, making agreements with buyers regarding rules for repairing damage/leaks, promoting green and clean movements for owners or occupants, expanding the customer segment market, contacting unit owners to be managed by rental management developers, opening multiple payment platforms with marketplaces, continuing to do marketing to target customers, cooperating with sales agents and other external parties, and rescheduling those with payment difficulties.

Matriliny, Merchandise and Islam: A Study of the Keyis in the Coastal Belt of Tellicherry, North Malabar

As owners of extensive matrilineal joint households in the Tellicherry Coastal town (North Malabar, South India), Keyis upheld an urban-centred identity in the colonial period. Scattered around the coastal town of Tellicherry in Cannanore, the Keyis today form an economically diverse group. The socio-economic distinction of the Keyis from other Muslim merchants on the Coast, their consolidation of social organisation along the matrilineal line and their economic relations based in landlord –tenant relations are explored here. The nature of the transformation of economic relations and kinship practices among the Keyis in the colonial and post-colonial period puts forth interesting dimensions of their everyday practices as shaped by historic and region-specific socio-economic, legal and political conditions. By undertaking a historical and ethnographic examination of this kinship group, this paper explores Muslim communities and cultures through their pluralities and recommends a methodological shift towards the exploration of kinship practices to inform the current scholarship on the Anthropology of Islam and Kinship Studies.

The Force Majeure Clause, Impossibility, and Frustration of Purpose in the Age of Covid-19

The Covid-19 Pandemic and the resulting government-imposed shutdowns have caused financial difficulty for many businesses in the United States. In particular, the shutdowns have strained landlord and tenant relations, as the failure of the latter to pay monthly rent has resulted in both parties taking their disputes to court. The contractual, legal doctrines of force majeure, frustration of purpose, and impossibility are being brought up in court by tenants who are hoping to have their nonperformance of contractual duties excused. For this study, fourteen pandemic-era court cases from around the country were analyzed in order to determine how the legal concepts of force majeure, frustration of purpose, and impossibility are being interpreted and whether the results were more in favor of the tenant or the landlord. The study found that courts interpreted the arguments in a very narrow manner, which resulted in very little victory for tenants. However, the author suggests that the practice of off-court resolutions in the face of strict legal jurisprudence could be an effective route for the disputing parties.

Aplikasi Manajemen Komplain Gedung Plaza Setiabudi Menggunakan Framework Ionic

PT Jakarta Setiabudi Internasional Tbk manages an office building located in South Jakarta, namely the Plaza Setiabudi building, with a total area of ​​22,264 m2 that can be rented and while maintaining performance and improving service levels to maintain the loyalty of building tenants. In services to building tenants, there are complaints, so that several departments involved in handling tenant complaints include Facility Management, Tenant Relations, Engineering, House Keeping, Security, and Parking. complaints to find out the process, so that customers do not need to meet employees directly and the building tenant complaint management process can be completed, the building tenant compliance management application is designed using UML (Unified Modeling Lagunage) to help describe business processes and in making applications using the Java and C# programming languages and to optimize the database using the ionic framework.

Under the landlord’s thumb: municipalities and local elites in Sweden 1862–1900

The Swedish Municipality Act, issued in 1862, consolidated a plutocratic system in which ownership and income, and the resulting level of taxation, translated into political power. However, as a measure to hinder large landowners from holding a majority of the votes, the Act guaranteed voting rights for tenants. The aim of this article is to analyse how power relations played out after this challenge to landlords’ hegemony. Through an analysis of tenants’ contracts, appeals to the King in Council and minutes from municipal board meetings, we show how landlords did not trust a political culture of deference to secure power, even if they had demanded subservience in contracts. In a deliberate and specific way, they also reserved voting rights for themselves, which we find to have been a widespread pattern, although it was repeatedly pointed out as unlawful by the King in Council. However, through the analysis of the board meetings, it becomes clear that the position of manorial landlords in these municipalities was so obvious that they rarely had to confront their tenants with their illegitimate contractual restrictions. The results empirically challenge a narrative of slow but steady democratisation and theoretically challenge the alleged reciprocity of landlord–tenant relations.

‘Don’t wake papa bear!’ Understanding media representations of landlord-tenant relations

Landlord–tenant relations are one of the core social relations of daily life yet are surprisingly under-theorized by housing scholars and geographers. This article begins to address this gap by applying for feminist scholarship on hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity to the case of the expansion and subsequent retrenchment of rent-control policy in Ontario, Canada in 2017–2018. Through a discourse analysis of government policy documents and news media coverage, I demonstrate that portrayals of landlords and tenants broadly conformed to characteristics of hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity, respectively, with landlords most commonly portrayed as ‘rational’ and tenants most commonly portrayed as ‘vulnerable’. Landlords benefit from traits associated with hegemonic masculinity even if they themselves do not embody them. Similarly, landlords benefit from the portrayal of tenants as passive victims, in need of paternalistic government protection, as opposed to potentially powerful collective actors.

Priority of tenant's goodwill over eviction in Iranian, Islamic and French law

In accordance with the law of landlord and tenant relations approved in 1997, when the lease term expires, the tenant receives the goodwill right to discharge and the landlord is required to pay the goodwill. But the law does not explicitly specify which of these assignments is prior to the other.The prioritization of goodwill towards discharging is a problem that will affect the tenant's capital to sustain the acquisition of a new location.There is a controversy among lawyers in response to the question. Some property evacuation is subject to a goodwill replacement, while another group considers the need to discharge before receiving this amount. In this descriptive and interpretive essay, in addition to explaining various views on the issue in Iranian law, this article attempts to explain the idea that goodwill is preceded by eviction and is ultimately strengthened by the study of Islamic and French law. This will help resolve the ambiguity that the courts have in this regard.

Training future agriculture professionals in landowner–tenant conservation decision‐making

AbstractThe landowner–tenant relationship is important to the implementation of conservation on agricultural lands. Women own or co‐own a significant portion of U.S. farmland yet are underrepresented in conservation research. The next generation of agriculture professionals can benefit from first‐hand experience in assisting women landowners and their tenants in navigating the complexities of conservation decision‐making. This article analyzes undergraduate student perceptions of landowner–tenant relationships in conservation management through their engagement in case studies with women landowner–tenant pairs in the Western Corn Belt. Student groups were asked to complete a management improvement plan that both incorporated the agronomic and conservation goals discussed by the landowners and tenants, following a field trip and interviews with the landowners, tenants, and other key stakeholders. Assessment data included a quantitative survey of career goals and conservation attitudes, qualitative reflections at start and end of course, and autoethnographic observations. The case studies presented students with new knowledge challenging previously held assumptions, leading some students to reconsider landowner–tenant relationships and conservation decision‐making. However, students returned to existing gendered norms and production‐oriented stereotypes when applying this knowledge in real‐world farm management plans. Although students gained firsthand valuable experience from the case studies, a one‐semester case study was insufficient to significantly shift student perceptions. We recommend that more curricular experiences incorporate the complexities of agricultural decision‐making to better equip future agricultural professionals with skills to ensure environmental and social sustainability outcomes.

Exploring the Financial Implications of Advance Rent Payment and Induced Furnishing of Rental Housing in Ghanaian Cities: The Case of Dansoman, Accra-Ghana

ABSTRACT Across the globe, private rental housing performs a critical role within modern housing systems. However, the nature of the sector, the households it serves, and the contractual landlord–tenant relationships are markedly different. In this article, we explore Ghana’s informal rental housing market, which provides accommodation to most renters because of limited housing in the formal housing sector. Drawing on exploratory research and survey data from renters in Dansoman, Accra, we contend that landlords’ practice of requiring renters to pay 2 years’ advance rent and to furnish their property imposes significant financial burden on the renters. We further demonstrate the extent to which different categories of renters are made worse off by these financial commitments. As government regulatory powers remain weak, private landlords’ unscrupulous practices have become an accepted social norm. The younger segments of society that are heavily dependent on this sector are, in particular, made considerably worse off, with knock-on consequences for labor mobility and the ability to create well-functioning housing systems.

Penerapan Risk Management Operational dan Pengaruhnya terhadap Mutu Pelayanan Di PT.UOB Property Jakarta

Implementation of operational risk management on the object property is very important in order to improve the quality of service so that the tenants more comfortable so that they continue to rent the premises. There are four divisions that are in direct contact with the occupants of the building that affect the quality of service that is division Tenant Relations, Engineering, Housekeeping and Security, therefore researchers interested in conducting research with the aim of knowing the operational risks of the building on the division Tenant Relations, Engineering, housekeeping and security and want to know the relationship of the four divisions with the quality of service. This research was conducted in PT.UOB PROPERTY with UOB Plaza building in Jakarta with population of 35 tenants and taken sample 25 respondents by using direct study in field and literature study, while to know the relationship of the four divisions with Spss 24 by using sample random sampling technique with 25 respondents. From the analysis results, there are operational risks with risk classification and low, medium and high impact in the TR (x1), Engineering (x2), Housekeeping (x3) and Security (x4) divisions.The results of the data using Spss 24 generated regression model Y = 0.353x1 + 0.585x2 + 0.567x3 - 0.040x4 - 3.621 and based on F test results that variable div.TR, Eng, HK, and div. Security variables simultaneously affect the variable the quality of the service, or by looking at the computation of F arithmetic with F table, from table F obtained data F table of 2.759, while F arithmetic of 43,070 thus F table (2.759) <F count (43.070) or F count (43.070)> F table (2.759) so that it can be concluded independent variable (X) div TR, Engineering, Housekeeping and Security simultaneously together affect the quality of service (Y), while based on test results t only engineering division (x2) , while for division Tenant relation, Housekeeping and security have no relation with service of quality.

Informal rental housing in the South: dynamic but neglected

Informal rental housing is growing rapidly in cities of the global South. Changing needs and circumstances of diverse urban populations produce new forms of rental accommodation and landlord–tenant relations. Focusing on the case of backyard renting in South Africa, this paper illustrates how informal rental is undergoing a dynamic process of expansion and upgrading that both reflects and contributes to improved socioeconomic conditions. Commercialization is transforming the material quality and social dynamics of informal rental housing. While there are signs of formalization and professionalization, the government’s neglect of this sector has contributed to the strong persistence of informality, with its associated risks. This paper argues that the informal rental sector deserves more government attention to augment the public benefits and mitigate the costs. The paper ends with suggestions of how a developmental approach by the government could help to convert the negative externalities into a positive dynamic with more equitable and sustainable outcomes.

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On ‘being collective’: A patchwork conversation with Somsook Boonyabancha on poverty, collective land tenure and Thailand’s Baan Mankong programme

Understanding rent struggles as encompassing a wide array of social relations and processes, RHJ Editors decided to include a conversation in this issue that explores collective ownership and alternative modes of land tenure. We view questions about alternative modes of housing production and ownership as key in rethinking the foundation of landlord and tenant relationships and traditional forms of housing tenure more broadly. In this conversation, Brenda Pérez-Castro, who works at the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) secretariat in Bangkok and the former director of the Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI) in Thailand, Somsook Boonyabancha, discuss how notions of collectivity emerge and operate as a protection from market enclosure. Based on Boonyabancha’s vast experience within the Baan Mankong programme and beyond, she reflects on the role of collectiveness in wider social processes, and discusses the challenges of different social actors, including the state, in strengthening collective action that support housing security.

Hybrid networks, everyday life and social control: Electricity access in urban Kenya

This article examines electricity access in Kisumu and Kitale, Kenya, through the mediation of land tenure relations. Despite a reported rapid expansion of formal network connectivity, various everyday practices have emerged, including piecemeal electricity purchase and communal meter sharing, which mean electricity access is controlled and mediated at various social scales. It is argued that such practices represent hybridised forms of electricity access and that landlord–tenant relations alter the socio-technical electricity network and how access is lived and experienced.

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New approaches and tools are needed to enable land tenancy arrangements in the developing countries to specify the landlord-tenant relationship in general and particularly in the targeted study area Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. So this research work applied a multi-criteria decision making approach (MCDM) to investigate the important factors which greatly impact on initial signing process of land tenancy contracts between landlords and tenants by using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a tool. This qualitative decision making technique has not been used extensively in the country especially in the landlord tenant relations. For the purpose field survey was conducted in August 2015 and interviewed 10 respondents (landlords and tenants) in a hypothetical situation from the baseline survey through a well-developed questionnaire by using Tones method in AHP. However, AHP is a methodology that facilitates respondents to trade off nonmarket factors of land tenancy contracts. Thus, the information was collected for the important factors (criterion) which has great effect in the initial contract agreement in the landlord-tenant relationship in our research area within each tenancy contract (alternative), then the important factors were incorporated in the AHP framework and subjected to the landlord-tenant judgments for each tenancy contract. The finalized factors were character, financial position, men power, experience, reference, land condition and house availability. The results of the AHP application to data collected from six different villages found that landlords’ preferences are strongest for character, men power in share cropping, distance, financial position in fixed contract, experience and men power in owner cultivation and the tenant’s partialities are strongest for house availability, financial position in share contract, land condition, reference in lease contract and in owner cultivation nothing found important. In overall, it was found that the dominant choice in the tenancy contract for landlords are share contract 45.7%, followed by rent contract 30.9% and less important owner cultivation 22.3% and in case of tenants it was found that the most preferable land tenancy contract is sharecropping 51.7% and fixed contract 41.7%, less effective 6.25% owner cultivation in the selected study villages. This study recommends that the agriculture and extension services departments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to apply AHP as tool in the wide range of multi sector in agriculture decisions, such as to determine best allocation for farm production, adaptation of latest technological tools and choices among different food and cash crop. Key words: Analytical hierarchy process, Pakistan.

Factors Associated with the Presence of Domestic Energy Efficiency Measures in England

AbstractWe use cross‐sectional household survey data in England between 2002–03 and 2010–11 to explore potential barriers to ownership of three common energy efficiency measures (loft insulation, cavity wall insulation and full double glazing) in residential properties. There is little compelling evidence that credit constraints, as proxied by income, education or means‐tested benefit receipt, inhibit ownership. Failures in landlord–tenant relationships, though, are a key issue: private renters are significantly less likely to have the measures in their homes than other tenure groups. More broadly, it is the characteristics of the dwelling rather than of the occupants which are most strongly related to the presence of the measures. However, relatively few factors are consistently associated with lower ownership rates over time and efficiency measures, suggesting that policies to encourage increased take‐up may need to be tailored to the specific measure.

Occupier responses to sustainable real estate: what’s next?

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is two-fold. Primarily, it examines the relationship between sustainable buildings and occupiers, by summarising the key extant literature. Secondarily, the paper proposes avenues for future research relating to the impact of sustainability on corporate real estate strategy.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews over 90 relevant publications related to sustainability, real estate market responses and corporate real estate, focussing on the role and response of occupiers. The approach concentrates on occupier strategies, specifically considering influences such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), landlord–tenant relationships, the changing occupier role and the “circle of blame”.FindingsIn recent years, literature has increasingly begun to reflect nuances in occupier responses to sustainable, prime, office real estate, with some conflicting findings as to the importance of sustainability. Location remains the dominant consideration in decision-making for occupiers, but sustainability is key to CSR and “value-add” in certain sectors. More effective use of sustainable buildings requires improved communication between landlord and tenant. The authors’ review demonstrates that challenges still remain in relation to the “circle of blame”. More research needs to be done in relation to the emergence of sustainability in the non-prime and retail sectors.Originality/valueThrough collating key literature in this topical research area, the paper provides a critical review of occupier responses to sustainable real estate, and, therefore, a fuller understanding of emerging market practices. Additionally, it suggests future research directions.

Landlordism and landlord–tenant relations in Kisumu and Kitale’s low-income settlements

This article concerns the nature of landlordism and landlord–tenant relations in Kenya’s smaller towns and cities and takes as its case studies Kisumu and Kitale. There is a pressing need to understand the variable ways in which rental tenure is produced in low-income areas and the interaction between inequality and the private provision of housing. This article contends that rental tenure has a long and complex history in Kenyan cities and remains the dominant mode of housing production in low-income areas. The article critically examines the ways in which different forms of landlordism, such as absentee landlordism, have different connotations when applied to smaller Kenyan town and cities. Moreover, the article analyses the symbiotic relationship between landlords and tenants, particularly regarding tensions surrounding the extraction of rent. Lastly, the wider socio-spatial significance of landlordism is discussed through an examination of the significance of life-quality differences between landlords/tenants.