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Many of us use or work with rental housing in some way. Maybe you have been — or are currently — a renter. Or maybe you own a rental property, operate a property management company, or otherwise work with or around rental housing. If any of that applies to you, the FTC wants to hear from you. The FTC is asking for public comments about whether a rule is needed to help prevent unfair or deceptive fee practices in rental housing. Have you ever had to pay an unexpected fee as a renter that wasn’t in the advertised rent? If you work in the rental housing industry, do you have experiences, information, or data to share about if or how a rule might make pricing more transparent, or... Read more
The rental market is starting 2026 the same way it ended 2025: soft, but with one encouraging sign underneath the numbers. Year-over-year rent growth sits at -1.4%, the...
Property owners and managers invest millions in renovations every year—gut rehabs, new amenities, completely refreshed interiors. And for many communities, those...
Across the United States, the gap between the cheapest and most expensive cities in a single state has become a defining feature of the rental landscape, not an...
Staring at a 25% down payment on a multi-million dollar asset feels like staring at a brick wall. You see the deals, you understand the potential for massive cash flow,...
Apartment amenities lists keep getting longer. Fitness centers get bigger. Lounges get prettier. Pet spas get more polished. But when you listen to residents—really listen—you hear something different: They don’t want more “stuff.” They want less friction. They want everyday life to feel easier. We hear it directly from residents every day—how much they appreciate having a real store just footsteps from home, with the selection they want and familiar staff they enjoy seeing again and again. Because the truth is simple: the apartment amenities that matter most are the ones residents actually use. The Moment Residents Realize: “Wait… I Don’t Have to... Read more
Every residential lease includes an implied warranty of habitability—even if the lease does not expressly mention it. This legal protection serves two core purposes:...
As multifamily heads into 2026, the industry is shifting from experimentation to execution. After several years of layering new tools and testing AI-driven solutions,...
The “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) concept is considered relatively new. But according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, BNPL is an overhaul and rebrand of...
TikTok and other social platforms are making it dramatically easier for fraudsters to learn, buy, and scale rental application fraud, and operators who rely on manual...
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