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The landlords of a single-family rental home in Minnesota have agreed to pay $74,000 in damages and penalties to resolve allegations of housing discrimination. The charges stem from a refusal to rent a large property to an extended family, and allegations of race...
It's official: Oregon has become the first to adopt a statewide rent control measure. Because of an emergency declaration, rent caps go into effect across the state immediately. The measure was passed over the objections of landlords and despite dire warnings from...
Lawmakers in Inglewood, California this week used an emergency ordinance to ban some evictions and enact rent control, sidestepping the usual legislative channels. The unusual move was initiated by the mayor, who asked for a 5 percent rent cap. Tenant advocates,...
How do you lose money in a landlords' market? Rent to one bad tenant. The tighter the rental market, the more likely landlords will encounter tenant scams. Watch out for these costly tricks, and keep your rental property profitable: Scam #1: Damaging the property,...
Landlords have a limited amount of time to catch damage from an exiting tenant before the new tenant moves in. Those landlords lucky enough to collect security deposits have strict time limitations for discovering damage to the property. Tenants, unfortunately, tend...
Excessive noise is a common tenant complaint and resolving noise complaints eats up a lot of a landlord's time and energy. Fortunately, it is possible to prevent many of these complaints by addressing the problem in the tenancy agreement: It's important for tenants to...
Liar. Mentally unstable. Unprofessional. Thief. These are only a few of the choice words found in landlord reviews currently posted online. Take a look at local review and rating websites and you'll likely find long lists of tenant complaints. One landlord has 13...
Verdicts for premise liability cases have grown in recent years, highlighting a disturbing trend for landlords. It's no longer uncommon to see sympathetic juries award $1,000,000 or more for injuries that occur at a rental property. What is Premise Liability? Premise...
Every property manager knows that good tenants improve profitability. A new report prepared by the experts at Reputation.com proves that customer service matters when it comes to attracting and retaining the best tenants. Reputation.com, the first and only complete...
Oregon lawmakers have proposed a measure that would ban landlords there from charging pet fees or pet rent. Landlords can continue to charge security deposits. However, the measure still is stoking some controversy. Tenants fear that no pet rent will translate into no...
Noise is one of the most common tenant complaints, and most landlords will need to diffuse a dispute at some point. Here are some tips to help restore peace -- and quiet -- to your rental property: Doing nothing is the worst option for landlords. Even if the noise...
It's a landlord's worst nightmare: no rent, property damage, and months to wait for an eviction. The only way this gets worse is discovering that the same bad tenants have scammed other landlords. A couple in Ontario have been ordered to pay over $20,000 in combined...
Using information from tenant credit checks when screening tenants can be confusing. For instance, does a landlord need a tenant credit check if they have verified the rental applicant's income? What if the person seems honest and has good references? Is it unfair to...
Absentee landlords. It's a term that applies when a landlord isn't around very often. This may be because the landlord lives a significant distance from the rental. Some people never intended to be landlords but found themselves needing to move or managing a property...
The Alberta rental market saw significant improvement over the past five months, according to a new report from Hope Street Real Estate Corporation, an industry leading tenancy management firm specializing in residential rental management. Edmonton experienced a 21%...
A Chicago landlord is facing a lawsuit after rejecting a rental applicant with a criminal history. The tenant was convicted of armed robbery 20 years ago and served six years in prison. The African-American man currently suffers from a disability which limits his...
A solid rental application allows a landlord to quickly identify qualified tenants, obtain the consent needed to run a tenant background check, lead a debt collector to a tenant who defaults, and flag and prosecute tenant fraud. Is your application up to the task? A...
Demand for apartments across the U.S. climbed to an eight-year high last quarter and rent growth accelerated, according to the latest report from real estate technology and analytics firm RealPage, Inc. The occupancy rate climbed to 95.4 percent, and rent growth moved...
The Utah State Legislature is mulling a statute that would criminalize fraudulent companion animal requests. The move comes after extensive news coverage of perceived companion animal fraud, most recently involving airline passengers. Companion or emotional support...
Thinking Long-Term In 2018, Canada's rental market yielded low vacancies, scant rental housing options, and fewer fixed-term leases. New regulations on the horizon will seek to restrict evictions. All that leads to one universal prediction: tenants are going to be...
