But usually the 43-year-old woman looks ahead: to the rent bill, the utility bill, the grocery bill.

Under a sweetheart deal going back many years, he can deduct maintenance costs from his rent bill.

He also eliminated my wife's name from our monthly rent bill.

The rent bill would include the number of times his door passplate was used, so Howie would eventually know someone had been there.

A tax bill cannot be separate from the rent bill.

Faced with a huge rent bill when sales soften, a retailer might decide to declare bankruptcy and walk away from the deal.

Tony agrees to pose that instant for the $500 rent bill.

In 2003, the Yankees used various expenses to lower an $11.4 million rent bill to one of $5.1 million.

For big firms with growing risks, the costs of professional-negligence insurance rival the rent bill.

"I have a little baby, no money, no way to earn money and a rent bill to pay," she said.