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D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is suing a local real estate and property management company over claims that it discriminated against renters with housing vouchers and refused to accept payments from the city’s rapid re-housing program. Advertisements for Southeast D.C. apartments run by Maryland-based Curtis Investment Group included the language “**NOT ACCEPTING VOUCHERS AT THIS TIME**” and “we are not accepting any vouchers or rapid rehousing” as recently as this month on both its own website and third-party sites like Apartments.com, Racine’s lawsuit alleges. The complaint includes images of the advertisements in question. D.C.’s Human Rights Act prohibits housing... Read more
The number of affordable housing units in the fastest-growing cities across the US declined from 2010 to 2017, according to new research from Freddie Mac...
The assistance animal is not a pet according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). There are only two questions that HUD says a housing provider...
Managing a property is a great way to make income, but it’s also possible to make costly mistakes or end up with a bad tenant you can’t easily get rid of. With the...
Tenants across the state are being rejected by landlords because of public but often misleading eviction data, according to an advocacy group calling for new...
Conflicts of interest are natural for commercial real estate brokers. There are huge revenue streams available for brokers who try to work in the best interest of both tenants and landlords. This long-standing practice is symptomatic of commercial real estate’s ongoing loyalty issues. Originally, landlords and developers hired brokerage firms to market their properties. As time passed, some of those same brokers realized there was an opportunity to increase their revenue by taking tenants that weren’t a good fit for their buildings and helping them find space in buildings owned by other potential landlord clients. My two-plus decades in commercial real estate taught me one clear... Read more
Here are 5 easy upgrades for your rental homes as the weather is getting nicer, the sun is shining brighter, and the days are longer, which means true summer is right...
Apartments that miss leasing inquiries or wait too long for follow-up with prospective renters may be throwing away money. Multifamily call center data shows that more...
One of the most challenging obstacles that the Affordable Housing Industry is facing today is the difficulty to attract, hire and retain talent into their businesses....
There are a lot of misconceptions out there about what it takes to get a great investment property at the best possible price. In my experience, foreclosed properties...
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