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City Is Suing a Landlord Over an Apartment Building With No Air Conditioning or Working Elevators Since July and Nearly Two Hundred Code Violations
Tenants inside a 166-unit building in Northeast Washington have gone without working elevators or air conditioning since the start of July, and now the city itself is suing to force […]
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Typical Mortgage Payment Just Climbed to a 14 Month High Even as a Record Share of Sellers Are Quietly Slashing Their Own Asking Prices to Compete
The typical U.S. household is now looking at a median mortgage payment of $2,641 a month, the highest that figure has been in 14 months, according to Redfin’s latest weekly […]
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Home Sales Dipped Again Last Month but Inventory Just Hit Its Highest Point Since 2019, Finally Handing Real Leverage Back to Buyers Everywhere
Existing-home sales slipped 2.0% in August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.98 million, down 1.2% from a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors’ latest report. […]
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Crews Trucked in Hundreds of Boulders at Low Tide to Keep Seven Oceanfront Homes From Sliding Into the Ocean After Storm Surf Wrecked Their Foundations
Beach Road in Dana Point looks like a construction site right now, and for once that’s a welcome sight to the people who live there. Crews spent this week hauling […]
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Home Inspector Filmed Every Problem Hiding Behind a Gorgeous 1.4 Million Dollar Flip and Viewers Cannot Get Past What His Camera Actually Caught
A $1.4 million cabin-turned-flip looked flawless in its listing photos, all exposed beams and warm wood tones staged for a quick sale. Then a home inspector who posts under the […]
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Homeowners Are Quietly Returning Smart Appliances in Growing Numbers the Moment They Realize Just How Many of the Advertised Features Are Actually Locked Behind Yet Another Sneaky Monthly Subscription Fee
Eighty-nine percent of the internet-connected products the Federal Trade Commission checked never told shoppers how long the manufacturer would keep the software running that makes the appliance’s advertised features work, […]
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Moving Companies Say Something Has Quietly Flipped This Year, With More Clients Now Uprooting Their Lives for a Partner’s Job Than for Their Own Career for the First Time Anyone in the Industry Can Actually Remember
Nearly half of all married couples in the United States now have two incomes attached to two separate careers, and that single fact is doing more to reshape relocation than […]
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Popular Smart Smoke Detector Brand Just Issued a Frightening Recall After Reports Surfaced That Certain Units Failed to Sound Any Alarm at All During Actual House Fires, and Homeowners Say They Had No Idea Until Now
Roughly 226,000 Kidde TruSense smoke and combination smoke/carbon monoxide alarms remain under an active federal recall, and safety officials say a meaningful share of those units are almost certainly still […]
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Renters Who Got Badly Burned When Their Entire Building Vanished Out From Under Them Mid Lease Are Now Flatly Refusing to Sign Anything Ever Again Without a Buyout Clause Built in From the Very Start
Roughly 5,200 renters across a dozen cities woke up one morning in the spring of 2024 to discover that the entity holding their lease had stopped existing. The co-living company […]
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Insurance Companies Are Now Dangling Real Premium Discounts in Front of Any Homeowner Willing to Install a Simple Water Leak Sensor, and Adoption of the Tiny Gadget Is Suddenly Exploding Faster Than Insurers Ever Expected
A palm-sized plastic disk that costs less than a dinner out can now shave real dollars off a homeowner’s insurance bill, and a growing list of carriers is putting actual […]