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Seventy Seven Year Old Attorney Has Been Sitting in Jail for Months Because He Refuses to Name Two Anonymous Neighbors Who Sued Their Own HOA
Bruce Burtoff has a straightforward way to get out of jail: give up the names of two anonymous clients. He has refused to do it for months, and as of […]
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HOA Spent Sixty Times Its Own Legal Budget Suing Two Neighbors Over Their Fences While Ignoring Every Other Fence on the Exact Same Street
A homeowners association in St. Peters, Missouri spent more than $31,000 in legal fees pursuing two neighbors over a fence, up from an annual legal budget of just $485 a […]
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Tenant Has Not Paid Rent Since 2023 and Has Blocked Inspectors More Than Two Hundred Times, and Now Her Own Landlord Is Facing Foreclosure
Most landlord-tenant disputes involve a few months of missed rent and a lot of frustration. This one has run more than two years, involves over 200 alleged instances of a […]
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Landlord Allegedly Blasted Music to Drown Out Tenant Meetings and Sent Eviction Notices to the Very Renters Who Kept Organizing Against Him
Tenants at two apartment buildings in Northwest Washington say their landlord’s response to complaints about mice, roaches, and weeks-long heating outages wasn’t repairs. It was retaliation, according to a lawsuit […]
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Empty Nest Retirees Now Own More Than a Quarter of the Country’s Biggest Houses While Young Families Raising Kids Are Stuck Fighting Over What Is Left
If you’re a millennial with kids hunting for a four-bedroom house right now, the math is not in your favor, and it isn’t close. New research from Redfin shows that […]
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Jared Leto Just Sold His Sprawling Air Force Themed Compound for 12 Million Dollars, More Than Double What He Originally Paid a Decade Ago
Jared Leto has sold his Los Angeles compound, and the numbers alone tell an interesting story: he paid $5 million for it in 2015 and just closed the sale for […]
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Cluster of Vacation Rental Companies Just Sued Thirty Five People Over an Island Wide Booking Scheme Worth Millions in Rental Management Fees
Anyone who’s booked a beach house on Florida’s Gulf Coast has probably never thought twice about who actually manages the property behind the listing. A sprawling lawsuit out of Manatee […]
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Family Was Fined Fifty Dollars a Day Over a Scaled Back Holiday Light Display and They Are Lawyering Up Instead of Ever Taking the Lights Down
A Maryland family is racking up $50-a-day fines from their homeowners association over a Christmas light display they say is smaller than what they’ve put up in years past, and […]
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Homeowner Says Squatters Turned Her Basement Unit Into a Drug Haven for Eight Months While a Simple Paperwork Error Stalled Her Case in Court
Getting a squatter out of a property you own is supposed to run through a defined court process with a defined timeline. In Washington DC, a property owner’s case shows […]
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Landlord Threatened to Call Immigration Agents on His Own Tenants During a Dispute and a Court Just Ordered Him to Pay Eighty Thousand Dollars
A Chicago landlord who threatened to call immigration agents on his own tenants during a rent dispute has been ordered by a court to pay more than $80,000, in what’s […]