1. We could just sit back and collect rents from an ever-decreasing number of tenants.

2. Many of them do not even bother to collect rents.

3. I need not have to run around to collect rents from tenants just because I like to invest in properties. I can simply invest in companies that have proven moneymaking people.

4. The Queen's Remembrancer used to collect rents owed to the King or Queen.

5. Rather than pay them himself, the king granted the knights the right to collect rents and other tributes from farmers in their domain.