What are a landlord's duties to prevent crime?
While preventing crime is not your sole responsibility as the landlord, you are obligated to take reasonable preventative measures to keep your home secure and limit opportunistic criminal activity where possible.
Do I have to submit a background check to my landlord?
If your landlord requires it, yes you need to submit it. It is important to note that you DO NOT have to pay for a background check in New York State. Legally, the new laws allow you to submit your own background check and paperwork when applying for a new lease.
LA County's $68.6 million rent relief program for landlords open through Jan. 12
Qualifying landlords in Los Angeles County have until Friday of next week to apply for a $68.6 million rent relief program designed to help offset economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Landlord incentive program aims to boost housing for low-income families
Less risk for landlords. More housing for people who need it. That is what County officials hope will happen with its Landlord Incentive Program.
HUD Charges Landlord with Disability Discrimination
HUD has charged landlord and its employees with violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing a tenant’s request for a disability-related reasonable accommodation -- to keep an assistance animal.
NY City Council limits landlords from running criminal background checks
The bill will mostly ban criminal background checks on prospective tenants until after determining an applicant’s other qualifications.
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Real Estate Startup Buying Up Family Homes to Rent
The new fund should make it easier for everyday Americans to speculate on the rental homes. Anyone can invest for as little as $100.
Tempe To Change City's Anti-Discrimination Policy to Help More Low-Income Residents
The plan would ban landlords from discriminating against using Housing Choice Vouchers. (Section 8)
New York City Landlord Has an Unusual Restriction - No cooking of meat or fish allowed, and the rule appears to be legal
No cooking of meat or fish allowed, and the rule appears to be legal
Airbnb guest ‘from hell’ squatting at home for 500 days — wants owner to pay $100K
An Airbnb guest has been squatting at a luxurious guest house overlooking the hills of Los Angeles for more than a year and a half — and is refusing to leave unless the homeowner pays her a $100,000 relocation fee.
Florida Woman Says Her 'Driveway Disappeared' After a 'Thief Stole it' From Home for Sale in Apopka.
Washington, DCCNN —
Using a travel agent to buy a plane ticket or a stockbroker to trade equities seem like relics of the past. And yet, every day, people across America hire a real estate agent to help them sell a home. It’s one of the few industries that has been able to largely avoid the disruption that has helped consumers cut costs in the Internet age.
And that is largely because of the power of the National Association of Realtors, the largest professional organization in America and a significant lobbying group for the real estate industry.
But the verdict handed down in a Missouri court on Tuesday that found NAR and two brokerage firms, Homeservices of America and Keller Williams Realty, were liable for $1.8 billion in damages for conspiring to keep commissions artificially high, may mark the beginning of the end of how homes are bought and sold.
Two other firms initially named in the suits brought by home sellers – Re/Max and Anywhere Real estate, formerly known as Realogy, which is the parent company of Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Sotheby’s International Realty and Corcoran — settled out of court for a combined $140 million. As a term of the settlement, they each announced a commitment to make changes in their business practices — including not requiring agents to be members of NAR. Source