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100

Anyone who uses or buys goods or services.

What is a consumer?

100

A notice from landlord requiring the tenant to move out for nonpayment of rent or breaking the rules of the lease.

What is an eviction?

100

A brand name that is widely recognized and sold in many different stores.  Because of extensive advertising, the name is associated with quality.

What is name brand?

100

The amount of goods and services available for sale at various prices at stated times.

What is supply?

100

Furnished bedroom with no cooking facilities.  Bathroom may be shared.

What is a sleeping room?

200

Unplanned consumer purchases, usually done on the spur of the moment- usually involving items on display or at reduced prices.

What is impulse buying?

200

Additional rules required by the landlord.

What are house rules?

200

Surplus products purchased from many different manufacturer and then labeled with black & white labels.  The quality varies.

What is generic brand?

200

A statement made by a manufacturer or seller of a product or service concerning the responsibility of quality, characteristics, and performance of the product or service.

What is a warranty?

200

Large room which is living room by day and bedroom by night.  

What is a studio apartment?

300

Those who provide the supply of goods and services to meet consumer demands.

What are producers?

300

The rental unit and grounds.

What are the premises?

300

A market situation where only one company produces the entire output of an industry.

What is a monopoly?

300

A federal agency that sets and enforces safety standards for food, drugs, and cosmetics.  Tests new drugs before they are put on the market.

What is the food and drug administration?

300

Specific items agreed upon in the lease.

What are terms?

400

The basic items a person must have to survive.

What are needs

400

Money to cover damages to apartment by tenant during rental period.

What is a security deposit?

400

A product that does not meet the standard requirements.  It is sometimes labeled irregular and may contain minor flaws or imperfections.

What is a second?

400

A statement in a lease to give up certain rights or provisions.

What is a waiver?

400

A written or verbal agreement to rent a property for a monthly fee.  Terminates with 30 day notice.

What is a rental agreement?

500

May require the consumer to pay labor fees or handling charges and shipping

What is a limited warranty?

500

A tenant who does not live up to the agreed upon terms of the lease.

What is a violation?

500

A brand owned by a particular store or chain of stores

What is a store brand?

500

Non-profit organization the provides consumers with information about a company’s consumer complaint record.

What is the Better Business Bureau?

500

Allows another person to move in and fulfill the Tenant’s part of the lease if original tenant must move out before the end of the lease period.

What is a sublease?