Rental Property
How to best manage your rental properties. The pros and cons of rental property management companies. Tips on rental agreements, landlord policies, and other tricks of the trade.
A Las Vegas professor says he is in the same position as many other homeowners, but several times over because he's also a real estate investor. The value of his investment properties has plummeted and he owes more than the houses are worth.
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Landlords have sworn they will fight “tooth and nail” against proposals to make them responsible for around £500 million of water debt owed by their tenants.
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Property trade bodies the British Property Federation (BPF) and the Residential Landlords Association denounced the plans, which are set out in the Walker Review into charging in the water sector.
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From landlordzone.co.uk
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- Landlord fined for failing to protect tenant (landlordzone.co.uk)
- ‘We won’t give tenant refund’ - NB Read these tips for tenants (sowetan.co.za)
- Tenants petition landlord to get rid of bed bugs (search.live.com)
Even if your landlord seems happy-go-lucky upon moving in, there's always a chance they won't be so nice when you move out. Keep all parties accountable and in check for a hassle-free lease with a little help from your camera. Photo by Lara604 As much as we'd like to say every landlord out there has a heart of gold, the truth is, economic times are tough. Even if you have left your last rental sparkling clean, there's rarely any proof as to...
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From lifehacker.com
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So let’s get this right. If you're a Moscow mogul looking to buy the New Jersey Nets and move them to Brooklyn, you don’t have to do any of the legwork that comes with finding an apartment in the bustling borough?
As the Post reports, that seems to be the case. Landlords of two pricey penthouses contacted Russian Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov looking to score him as a tenant. One of the digs, at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, runs a modest $7.5...
From gothamist.com
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- Inventories: A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words (landlordzone.co.uk)
- GoSection8.com Announces Increase in Landlords Using Section 8 Program (businesswire.com)
- Spain's Rental Market Sees Sharp Increase In Tenant Defaults (nuwireinvestor.com)
Unfortunately not all landlords and property managers are honest and until you become a tenant it's difficult to determine what to expect from the relationship. Contracts and leases are meant to protect both the tenant and the owner but there is a large gray area that contains the emotions and intricacies of each tenant/landlord relationship.
Beyond reviewing a lease with a fine-tooth comb, there are some simple precautions to take that...
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The smell of piss and fish paste are palpable even outside the locked door of 81 Bowery, a four-story tenement just a few buildings up from Canal Street in Manhattan's Chinatown.
The stairwell inside gives off an air of abandonment. On the second floor, a door opens to reveal a nice enoug...
From villagevoice.com
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- Court slapps down landlord who sued tenant in condemned building (universalhub.com)
- Landlord donates kidney to tenant (chicagotribune.com)
- South Congess Salon Locked Out By Landlord (austinist.com)
The highest court in New York state held Oct. 22 that Tishman-Speyer, a big
landlord that controls 11,277 apartments in one major Manhattan apartment
complex alone, must significantly lower the rents on over 4,000 apartments that
it leases at “market rate” and put them back under rent
regulation.
From workers.org
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- Mall in foreclosure no new tenants (stevenspointjournal.com)
- Declaration of the rights of tenants (michigandaily.com)
- 8:30 pm update: Landlord offered help to Georgia Pines (news.google.com)




