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A resident disputes an $840 carpet charge. You open the file and find a move-in checklist with “carpet: good” in handwriting nobody recognizes, a move-out photo of a burn mark, and nothing at all from the day she picked up her keys. The leasing consultant who walked that unit at move-in left in March. The charge is fair. You are going to credit it back anyway, because what is in that file will not hold. Where the record breaks Your team walks every unit. That part is not the problem. The problem surfaces months later in the file, and it comes from a few places at once. Everyone documents a different way. One consultant shoots forty photos of a make-ready. Another shoots... Read more
When a Pennsylvania tenant leaves belongings behind after an eviction or move‑out, you cannot simply toss everything in the dumpster and change the locks. Act 129,...
In the first half of 2026, Snappt evaluated over 700,000 rental lease applicants, more submissions than ever before, and found 3.8%, or roughly 1 in every 26, containing...
Apartment owners can use cost segregation to identify qualifying components with shorter tax lives than the building. This 2026 guide now explains multifamily asset...
Renting in New York City is full of surprises, and some of the greatest surprises are hidden in New York City’s Housing Maintenance Code (“the Code”)....
When lightning struck the apartment building at 655 New York Ave. in Brooklyn, it started a blaze that ripped through more than 100 apartments. More than 200 firefighters arrived on the scene. Three and a half hours later, the fire was under control, but the homes were incinerated. That was in 2012. To this day, the building’s residents haven’t been able to return. The building is one of nearly 9,000 in New York City that have been placed under an order to vacate since 2012 — an emergency protection that today is being slapped on a record number of buildings, according to a Bisnow analysis of city data. “It’s all tremendously frustrating,” Legal Aid Society... Read more
Tamiaka Bryant has rebuilt her life from scratch before. She doesn’t want to have to do it again. Originally from North Carolina, Bryant saw her hometown of New Bern...
Property managers make judgment calls every day. Most can be handled through established policies, training, and good documentation. But fair housing has a way of...
Oregon multifamily owners who have considered converting their apartment communities to smoke-free housing under the new law may want to start planning now. Beginning...
If there is one fair housing topic that has generated a disproportionate amount of litigation, complaints, training questions, and frustration over the past decade, it...
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