The terms, phrases and words do not necessarily refer to the same meaning as in common English or tax law or real estate, it's not about real estate or taxes.

What they left out was that the couple had been in the country for +60 years (and never learned English) had a total of 7 children, of which 6 are able bodied and living in the area (why weren't they helping their parents?)

The telephone support from India have a hard time understanding English, and are equally hard to understand.

Your elementary-school English teacher would be mortified!

You won't hear of it very often but it goes back to old english common law where the government wanted to make sure that land was used and not going to waste.

Is there potential in a rowhouse for an English basement that can become another rentable property, etc..The pluses are the high rents and demand for them.

Here is a question for all you English majors out there.

@George WendtThe areas I would suggest to you in Detroit is in neighborhoods like Rosedale Park, University District, Boston Edison, Woodbridge, Midtown, Corktown, Sherwood Forest, Green Acres, East English Village, Indian Village, Grandmont and few othe r areas that border some of these areas.

English eat Squab (pigeon), and I love sushi.During the late 70s and 80s there was a big cultural adjustment for recent immigrants in certain part of the county I grew up in (Orange County) and inappropriate, over the top jokes about missing dogs were rampant.Maybe your lease clause should be modified to read: "...no dogs as pets or livestock".  

Everytime I'd try answering the phone for the day I got a lot more prospects although many of them did not speak a lot of English.