"We needed to look at all the avenues to reduce our costs and the number one, of course,is our rent,and I asked the landlord to help me out, which they agreed,"
VOA: standard.2009.12.20
Their savings and qualifications were rendered worthless, the institutions for whichthey worked were either abolished or ruined, and they were forced to rentout their big, shabby flats to pushy foreign consultants half their age.
Rather than simply buy a pied-a-terre in an enviable locale by which to park money as a long-term investment, more wealthy buyers are snapping up properties that they can rentout as income-producing assets.