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Vintage Railroad Caboose That Spent Decades Rattling Along Freight Lines Cross Country Is Now Parked Permanently in Someone’s Backyard as a Fully Livable Guesthouse, and the Listing Leans Hard Into Every Rattling Bit of the History
A three-bedroom house on a private acre in Malibu’s Point Dume neighborhood changed hands last year for $11 million, and the most talked-about square footage on the lot isn’t inside […]
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One Property Manager Was Secretly Operating Forty Separate Short Term Rentals Out of a Single Address for Years After the City Capped Exactly How Many Any One Person Was Ever Legally Allowed to Run at Once
A single hotel license, issued in 2021 for one high-rise on Chicago’s South Michigan Avenue, ended up attached to more short-term rental units than most apartment buildings in the city […]
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California’s Attorney General Is Now Personally Begging Renters Across the Entire State to Come Forward With Their Absolute Worst Landlord Horror Stories as Part of a Sweeping New Enforcement Crackdown Aimed Squarely at Bad Actors
The California Department of Justice is running an open call for rental horror stories, and it is not doing it quietly. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office is asking tenants across […]
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Security Researchers Just Exposed a Terrifying Flaw in One of the Most Popular Smart Locks on the Market That Lets Anyone Simply Standing Near Your Front Door Unlock It Over Bluetooth Without Ever Touching a Keypad
A Bluetooth flaw in one of Europe’s most widely used smart door locks let anyone within range of the front door send an unlock command straight to the hardware, with […]
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Aging Parents and Their Adult Daughter Bought One House Together and Legally Carved It Into Two Completely Separate Living Units So Everyone Could Stay Fiercely Independent Under a Single Shared Roof
Fifty-nine point seven million Americans were living in a multigenerational household as of March 2021, 18% of the U.S. population and a share that has quadrupled since 1971, according to […]
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Teachers and Nurses Who Quite Literally Keep Entire Communities Alive Are Increasingly Priced Out of Living Anywhere Near the Very Schools and Hospitals Where They Show up to Save the Day Every Single Morning
The people who staff the classroom down the street and the emergency room across town increasingly can’t afford to live anywhere near either one. New research from Homes for Heroes […]
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Los Angeles Is Suing a Landlord Who Allegedly Ordered an Entire Building Full of Longtime Tenants to Pack up and Vanish Just Five Days After He Bought the Property, Leaving Them Almost No Time to Find Anywhere Else to Go
The Los Angeles city attorney’s office has sued a landlord accused of ordering every tenant in an eight-unit apartment building to clear out just five days after he closed on […]
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Disabled Navy Veteran Is Suing Her Own Homeowners Association, Accusing the Board of Piling on Fee After Punishing Fee and Sending Her Debt Straight to Collections Over Charges She Insists Were Never Fair or Ever Properly Explained
A disabled Navy veteran in San Antonio has sued the homeowners association that once managed her condominium, accusing the board of stacking fees onto her account, sending an unresolved balance […]
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City of Oakland Is Suing the Owner of a Badly Neglected Apartment Complex After Years of Furious Tenant Complaints About Conditions the City Says Were Documented Over and Over Again yet Somehow Never Actually Fixed
The City of Oakland has sued the owners of a 98-unit downtown apartment building, accusing them of leaving tenants without working elevators for 52 straight days and ignoring years of […]
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Man Nicknamed the Christmas Lawyer After Dragging His Own HOA All the Way to the Supreme Court Over Holiday Decorations Blew Every Cent of His Settlement Money on Even More Lights and Inflatables Out of Pure, Gleeful Spite
Jeremy Morris, an Idaho attorney people started calling the “Christmas Lawyer,” spent nearly eight years suing his own homeowners association over holiday lights, pushed the fight all the way to […]