with vocabulary that escapes common understanding.” Hamilton, supra, 310 F.3d at 391 (quotations omitted). Rent, generally defined as “[e]onsideration paid, usu[ally] periodically, for the use or occupancy of property,” Black’s Law Dictionary 1322 (8th ed. 2004), squarely comports with the FDCPA’s definition of “debt” when it is paid for residential purposes, as here. That finding is consistent with federal precedent. Courts have observed that “rent clearly fits the definition of debt embodied in the FDCPA.” Travieso v. Gutman, Mintz, Baker & Sonnenfeldt, P.C., No. 94-5756, 1995 WL 704778, *3, 1995 U.S. Dist. Lexis 17804, *9 (E.D.N.Y. Nov. 16, 1995) (citing Emanuel v. Am. Credit Exch., 870 F’.2d 805 (2d Cir.1989)); see also Romea v. Heiberger & Assocs., 163 F.3d 111, 115 (2d Cir.1998) (<HOLDING>). Other courts assume that the FDCPA
holding that the name under which a debt collector is licensed to do business is the debt collectors true name for purposes of the fdcpa holding that unearned rent is not a debt  and instead constitutes a contingent liability because rent does not accrue to the lessor as a debt unless the lessee has enjoyed the use of the land holding that an entity engaged in collection activity on a defaulted debt acquired from another is a debt collector under the fdcpa even though it may actually be owed the debt holding that back rent is debt under the fdcpa holding that unpaid traffic fine is not debt under fdcpa