Landlords

NYC Real Estate Survival: 6 Ways to Get Your Landlord to Fix Stuff

Teri Karush Rogers | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: New York City Real Estate, Renting, BrickUnderground.Com, Brickunderground, New York City, New-York-City-Real-Estate, Landlords, Rentals, Renters Rights, Super, NY Real Estate, New York News

Compared to owning a place, renting is supposed to be a pretty hassle-free existence. If your dishwasher leaks or the window won't open, you tell your landlord and someone comes to fix it. That's the theory.

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As Demand For Rentals Rises, 2012 Will Be 'The Year Of The Landlord'

Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Housing Starts, Housing Demand, Housing Market, Rental Market, Landlord, Housing Industry, Apartments, Homeownership, Construction, Home Rentals, Real Estate, Rentals, Landlords, Video, Business News

(MARGARET CHADBOURN, Reuters) - Brian Keith is busier than ever as the architecture firm he works for rushes to wrap up work on a 300-unit apartme...

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Tenants' Rights Are Human Rights: A Response to Critics' Misrepresentation of Rent Regulation

Jumaane D. Williams | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Lower-Income-Neighborhoods, Tenants Rights, Rent Regulation, Rent Control, NY Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Landlords, NY Rent Control, Affordable Housing, New York News

It should be considered a right to afford to live in the city where you work. There are 2.5 million New Yorkers in danger of losing this ability if the State Senate allows the state's rent regulation laws to lapse.

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Experian Now Reporting Rental Payments

Jeanne Kelly | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Experian, Credit Rating Agencies, FICO Score, Rental Market, Credit Crunch, Credit Reports, Landlords, Healthy Living News

It came as big news to me earlier this year when I heard that Experian would now be reporting rental payments. Folks have often said to me that they ...

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New York City Apartment Hell Pt. 3

David Serchuk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pregnancy, Bay Ridge, Rent, Brooklyn, New York City, Apartments, Real Estate Agents, New York Apartments, NY Real Estate, Landlords, New York News

The person showing the place wasn't there; the door was eerily open to the world, looking for all intents and purposes like the opening scene of some kind of cheaply-shot horror movie.

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Is It Crazy To Forgive Those Who Hurt You? A Christian Perspective

Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Emmet Fox, Forgiving, Forgiveness, Richard Foster, Jesus, Desmond Tutu, Pity, Hatred, Christianity, Landlords, Religion News

I hated him -- with every fiber of my being. It's the first time I think I really understood on a fundamental level what the Bible calls a "perfect" hatred. But, eventually, I had to forgive him.

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Mortgage Banker's Forecast: More Regulation Will Cost Consumers and Taxpayers

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: D. C., Financing, District of Columbia, Washington, Bureau of Labor Statistics, RS Means, Obama, Obama Administration, Real Estate, Credit Crunch, Loan Fees, Great Recession, Consumer Protection Agency, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Business News, Marshall Swift, Landlords, Financial Institutions, Cmbs, Unemployment Rate, Triple a Rating, Job Creation, Standard and Poor?S, Credit Rating Agencies, Congress, Dodd-Frank, Barack Obama, Obama Stimulus, Mortgage Bankers Association, New Legislation, Wall Street Crisis, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Borrowing Money, Derivatives, Investor, Credit, Hometech, Business News

Washington, D. C. is hot, but the rest of the nation is not when comparing our unemployment rates to the nation's capitol. "The largest over-the-month...

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Apartment Market Strengthens, As Larger Housing Woes Mount

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Rental Market, Nancy Pelosi, Ally Financial, Apartments, Bank of America, Home Rentals, Foreclosure, Gmac, Housing Crisis, Landlords, Business News

The best time to sign a lease may have just passed, as the apartment rental market has strengthened, Bloomberg reports. Good news for landlords, bad n...

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Slicing Away Some of Suburbia

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Attorneys, Suburbs, Small Business, Tenants, Real Estate Prices, Small Business Failure, Real-Estate-Values, Renegotiations, Commercial Real Estate, New York, Landlords, Business News

The disappearance of another pizza parlor shouldn't have had much of an impact on me. What's bothering me is that there are proprietors failing in just about every business area around town.

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Aftermath of Stuy Town/Peter Cooper Village Debacle

Eric S. Margules | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Housing Market, Real Estate, New York Real Estate, Stuyvesant Town, Rent Stabilized Apartments, Landlords, Margulies Properties, Deregulated Apartments, Eric Margules, New York News

If the courts can legislate from the bench and reinterpret years of case law and regulatory intent, then who knows what may come next?

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New Free Credit Report Advertising Rule

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Credit Bureau, Free Credit Report, Credit Report, Banks, Credit Reporting Agencies, FICO Score, Debt Collectors, Federal Trade Commission, Landlords, Business News

NEW YORK — Now that it will be easier to find your free credit report, you may be curious about who else can see it and how it can be used. Start...

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Death In Balcony Fall Not The First Death For NYC Landlord

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | Bernie Mooney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Nyc, Carbon Monoxide, Pan Am Equities, Department of Buildings, Jennifer Towers, Fraydun Manocherian, Balcony Fall, Connor Donohue, Murray Hill, Landlords, New York News

Produced by HuffPost's Local Citizen Reporting Team Two weeks ago, 24-year-old Connor Donohue fell to his death after a faulty railing gave way on hi...

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Renting Or Buying: Which Is More Grown Up?

Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Real Estate Market, Citizenship, Housing-Finance-Agencies, Switzerland, Mortgage Institutions, Renting a House, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Renting, Moving House, Homeowners, Commitment, Moving, Buying a House, Robert Shiller, Landlords, Healthy Living News

Financial theory tells us that people should diversify their assets, rather than dumping them all in one place (a home). For the majority of Americans, renting might make more sense.

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HUD Wants Help Creating Anti-Gay Discrimination Study

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Rights, Housing, Hud, New York City, Chicago, Equal Rights, Lesbians, Housing Rights, Gays, Renters, San Francisco, Landlords, Politics News

CHICAGO — When federal officials studied housing discrimination based on race, the setup was simple: They sent in testers of different backgroun...

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Milton Bradley, Ex Chicago Cub, Sued By Former Landlord

Chicago Sun-Times | Cubbie Nation | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Cubs, Magnificent Mile, Landlords, Lawsuits, Milton Bradley Cubs, Milton Bradley, Chicago News

Add his landlord to the list of people who don't like former Cubs rightfielder Milton Bradley, dumped by the team last month. ...

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Despite Successes, Problems Remain Organizing Queens' Immigrant Tenants

Vinnie Rotondaro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Astoria, Queens Vantage Tenants Council, New York Real Estate, Jackson Heights, Renting, New York City Apartments, Immigrants, Immigration, Queens New York, Landlords, Chhaya, New York News

For years, advocates in New York have worked to organize renters against landlords that try to harass tenants out of their buildings. One of the most difficult areas to mobilize has been Queens.

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Landlord Goes Back To Work To Let Unemployed Tenants Stay Rent-Free

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Health Clinics, Pets, Rock-Hill, Homeless Children, Horse Farm, Tenant, Lost Out Home Pet Foundation, Unemployed, Unemployment, American Girl, Equine Star Foundation, Community-Health-Centers, Foreclosure, Bearing Witness 2.0, Landlords, Business News

As the Huffington Post continues to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we've found additional comp...

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HuffPost Readers: Are You A Homeowner Turned Landlord?

Huffington Post | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Market, Homeowners, Renters, Recession, Housing Crisis, Housing Slump, Income, Landlords, Business News

The Huffington Post is examining the fallout from the housing bust, and we're looking for homeowners who have become landlords. Are you trying to su...

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Reluctant Landlords: More Homeowners Renting Out Their Homes

The Wall Street Journal | M.P. MCQUEEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Trends, Real-Estate, Renting, Foreclosure, Mortgages, Tenants, Landlords, Homeowners, Apartment Vacancy Rates, Housing Prices, Housing Crisis, Rental Homes, Business News

Hard data are scant on how many homeowners are renting out their homes, but anecdotal evidence suggests numbers are up. In one indication of the trend...

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Commercial Real Estate Is an Impending Disaster

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

Many of us know of people who have lost their homes through foreclosure. To a lesser extent we hear about struggling commercial properties vying for a limited pool of tenants.

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The Grande Dame Of NYC Land Use

The New York Observer | Reid Pillifant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York, Greenwich Village, Save the Village, Land Use, New York City, Landlords, New York News

Doris Diether, a member of Save the Village since 1959, has fought dictatorial landlords and campaigned to preserve the environment and history of her...

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Do User-Generated Review Sites Sites do More Harm Than Good?

Pauline Millard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Review Sites, Housing, User-Generated Content, Yelp, Free Speech, Apartments, First Amendment, Real Estate, New York City, Landlords, Rentals, Citizen Journalism, New York City Apartments, Technology, Citizen Journalists, Media News

I would worry about what these sites said about me and how they were monitored. Users post anonymously, and there are no checks and balances to investigate if any of the claims are valid.

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Florida Landlords Working Hard In Crisis To Keep Tenants

Miami Herald | By ROCHELLE BRODER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida, Real Estate, Rental Properties, Landlords, Business News

During the real estate boom, losing a tenant didn't matter so much. Any tenant, whether office, industrial or retail, could easily be replaced. Now, ...

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Starbucks' 600 Mistakes?

Jim Randel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Landlords, Real Estate, Economy, Investment, Lenders, Starbucks Closing, Starbucks Coffee, Starbucks, Business News

Starbucks will survive of course and probably prosper after closing 600 locations, but its reputation as a primo-tenant and a trend-setting real estate visionary has been tarnished.

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Making Good Karma 'Scalable'

The New York Times | Miguel Helft | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Rental Buildings, Goodwill, Landlords, Healthy Living News

Over the years, the nondescript two-story building, which the Amidis have owned since the early 1990s, has been home to a series of Silicon Valley sta...

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