Former landowners now became tenants who had to pay rent to their absentee Bannermen landlords. The desire of Quezon to placate both landlords and tenants pleased neither. As the gentrification pace increased, there were numerous reports of problems between landlords and tenants. Some 538 families were settled as agricultural tenants on the estates of Anglo-Irish landlords. However, there were a few subsects comprising wealthy landlords and money lenders. Private renting from housing landlords was the dominant tenure. The "fine" resented their clansmen paying rent to other landlords. UIC controls Singapore Land, one of the biggest property landlords in Singapore. A rent strike is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords. Significant rent charges (to absentee landlords) created further anger. Apartment buildings were abandoned or sold to lesser landlords amid rapid urban decay. Secondly, landlords and merchants migrated from various Latin American countries. Frank was a Tory and sided with the landlords and farmers. Many of these absentee landlords lived in England. These freeholders were in the power of the landlords.