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Major Apartment Company Is Being Sued Over a 385 Dollar Processing Fee Alone, and the City Says the Real Legal Cap Should Have Been 54 Dollars
Washington DC’s attorney general says a national apartment operator charged renters a $385 fee just to process a lease application, in a city where the law caps that kind of […]
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Tenants Who Fought Their Landlord for Nearly a Decade Just Won Something Renters Almost Never Get, an Actual Path to Owning Their Own Building
For close to a decade, tenants inside three Crown Heights apartment buildings lived with uncapped radiator valves, vermin, and heat that came and went on its own schedule. This month […]
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More Than Four Hundred Former Students Say a Reality TV Flipping Guru Sold Them a Fantasy and Their Decade Long Fraud Case Is Finally Nearing Trial
More than 400 former students of a reality-television house-flipping personality are pushing a decade-old fraud lawsuit toward its final stretch, after years of appeals, motions, and procedural delays kept the […]
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Nine Bedroom House Listed for Under 260000 Dollars Went so Viral That Its Own Agent Says He Has Fielded Calls From Nearly Every Area Code in America
A nine-bedroom Detroit house listed for under $260,000 turned into enough of an internet sensation that its listing agent says he ended up fielding calls from nearly every area code […]
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Couple Paid 53000 Dollars for a Retired Disney World Cabin off Facebook Marketplace and Their Room by Room Renovation Will Not Stop Trending Online
Grace and Jacob Kocher paid $53,375 for a 540-square-foot cabin that Disney World no longer wanted, and their room-by-room documentation of turning it into an actual home hasn’t stopped making […]
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Family’s Cross Country Movers Held Their Entire Life Hostage in a Moving Truck for Four Months After Quietly Doubling the Agreed Price
A Philadelphia-area family’s move to Florida turned into a four-month standoff after the company hired to haul their belongings across the country allegedly doubled its price mid-move and threatened to […]
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Retired Steam Engine Water Tower From the 1890s Was Turned Into a Four Bedroom House and It Just Relisted for 5.5 Million Dollars Total
A California landmark that spent decades quietly supplying water to steam locomotives is back on the market, and the asking price says a lot about what a good origin story […]
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Major Property Management Company Was Just Ordered to Pay More Than Six Million Dollars to Over Seventeen Thousand Renters Across One State
A Baltimore judge has ordered one of the region’s largest apartment operators to pay more than $6 million to tenants after finding it spent years charging late fees that broke […]
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Bidding Wars Have Cooled Off Nationally but More Than a Quarter of Move In Ready Homes Are Still Quietly Selling Above the Asking Price Anyway
The national housing market has spent the past year drifting toward buyers, with more listings sitting longer and sellers cutting prices more often than they have in years. And yet […]
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Lower Income Renters Now Have Barely 210 Dollars Left Each Month After Rent Is Paid, Down From 410 Dollars Just Seven Short Years Ago
Seven years ago, a renter earning less than $30,000 a year typically had about $410 left over each month after paying rent. Today that median cushion has dropped to roughly […]