11.   Instead of addressing her complaint, Lowe said, Vose told her he would start legal action over back rent she owed.

12.   Jean returns to his Alphabet City tenement to find an angry landlord demanding his back rent, and departs with a painting he hopes to sell.

13.   Landlords say that once a case is over, they often cannot collect back rent.

14.   Meanwhile, Ms. Boucher says she must contend with tenants like the man who declared bankruptcy to keep from paying his back rent.

15.   No family is permanently moved until back rent is paid.

16.   Now Brown is asserting himself as the landlord and demanding back rent for all the years Americans circumvented him.

17.   Of course, one way to avoid the headaches of collecting back rent is to pick the right tenant in the first place.

18.   Police officials here said the only specific item of debt Green mentioned in his confession was the back rent at Executive House.

19.   Scottsdale Family Treasures also closed and was sued for back rent.

20.   Some schemes are ingenious, such as allowing cash-strapped tenants to pay off their back rent with the reimbursements due them from the Alto Checks program.