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A resident has been violating a community rule for months. There has been thorough documentation, staff has issued reminders, and management is finally ready to escalate. Then the resident files a fair housing complaint or requests a reasonable accommodation. Now what? The underlying violation did not disappear. The lease did not suddenly become unenforceable. But the context surrounding the next management decision has changed. This is where retaliation risk becomes complicated. A perfectly ordinary lease violation notice, non-renewal, or other enforcement action can attract very different scrutiny when it closely follows a resident exercising a fair housing right. The challenge is not... Read more
KEY TAKEAWAYS Gen Z adults living at home represent latent rental demand in several US metros, with McAllen, TX, leading the list according to Chandan...
What today’s renters want most in 2026 is changing the way successful landlords market and manage their rental properties. Today’s renters are looking for more than...
The typical U.S. asking rent rose to $1,965 in June, up 2.2% annually, according to the Zillow Observed Rent Index. 39.7% of rentals on Zillow offered a concession in...
By Nate Bernstein, Managing Attorney of LA Real Estate Law Group. Hiring a property management company can relieve an owner of many of the day-to-day responsibilities...
The most dangerous leasing signal word when reviewing your leasing performance is “fine.” It can show up when occupancy reads high, the lead count looks full, and the risk that should worry you is a quarter away, Apartment List writes in a new report. “We’re still like 97, 98% occupied,” an operator told us on a recent call, before adding that the property usually runs at 99.5%. He was more than a point under his own baseline, and the headline number told him nothing about what it may have cost to preserve it. Occupancy can look stable while loss to lease is already doing the damage underneath. The damage works on a delay. By the time occupancy slips, the demand that set it is... Read more
Smart apartment owners and operators are pouring money into marketing, but too often they are chasing noise instead of net operating income. At this year’s...
Let’s talk about the phone. With all the new AI assistants, chatbots, and automated answering strategies, it’s easy to think the traditional phone call is a...
Apartment amenities have long been treated as an arms race—flashier, trendier and more eye-catching than the competition. But that approach is starting to look...
Walk through any high-supply apartment market today, and the landscape looks remarkably identical. Banners draped over construction fences, bold text on ILS listings,...
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