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Temporarily Leasing Out Your Home

If you own your home but your current situation doesn't allow you to afford the payments and you can’t find a less expensive place to live, you may be concerned about losing your property. There are a number of reasons why you'd find yourself in a situation like this, including a slowdown in the economy, changing family dynamics, retirement, or even special circumstances. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent financial disruption devastated many homeowners. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) National Delinquency Survey, the mortgage loan delinquency rate on one-to-four-unit residential properties during Q4-2020 decreased to a... Read more

An advocate platform could be the payoff for rent delinquency issues. There are currently about 6 million people in the United States behind on their lease payments,...

Lenders will to return to using standard MAP Guide policies. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced that it is removing temporary COVID-19 underwriting...

Lawmakers passed the bill hours before the eviction moratorium was set to expire. California lawmakers on Thursday approved an emergency bill to extend the state’s...

Filings for residential evictions in New York are still a fraction of their pre-pandemic numbers, even without a moratorium in place. But housing advocates and...

Texas eviction filings among the nation’s...

The U.S. Treasury Department seized $1.9 million in unspent rent relief from five Texas counties and one city because local officials didn’t spend the money fast enough. Eviction filings in several Texas cities are among the highest in the nation — even as millions of federal dollars aimed at helping struggling renters have sat unspent so long in some counties that the federal government is taking the money back. Landlords in the Houston area filed more than 2,000 eviction cases last week, according to Eviction Lab, a research center based at Princeton University that tracks eviction filings — the highest number there since the pandemic began. Among the 31 cities that Eviction... Read more

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to cancel all property tax penalties and other fees related to building owners who have been...

The coronavirus pandemic taught many apartment owners and developers how to make their properties safer, healthier places for their residents to call home. During the...

Many Americans don’t feel tethered to just one place anymore, Coldwell Banker reported. Younger generations are more inclined than their older counterparts to live in...

The Spokane City Council narrowly approved an ordinance on Monday that bars landlords from seeking to evict a tenant who is waiting to hear back on a rental assistance...