Your company's assets and liabilities are reported on its balance sheet. Assets go on one side of the sheet, liabilities on the other. The difference between them is the owners' equity in the company -- what the owners would take away if they sold all those assets and paid off all those debts.
Key Points. For all residential premises, whether houses or flats, a landlord may, depending on the circumstances, be liable to be prosecuted if anyone such as a tenant, resident, workman or visitor, is put at risk of being exposed to asbestos or is actually exposed to it.
In addition to this responsibility to the tenants, landlords may also be partially responsible for protecting the surrounding community from criminal acts of the tenants. For example, some states have codes and statutes that impose liability on landlords for renting property to drug dealers.