In spite of a tough job market, rising consumer goods prices, challenging mortgage loan underwriting guidelines, and numerous trillion dollar bailouts, home prices have been improving quite well across the nation. What happens if and when mortgage loan underwriting guidelines ease up and become
A recent epidemic of civil ligation has begun to emerge in several states over bedbugs. Most notably is the $800,000 verdict awarded to an Annapolis, Maryland woman. Ms. Faika Shaaban sued her landlord, Mr. Cornelius J. Barrett, upon her discovery that the landlord had
WASHINGTON, D.C.—While demand for apartment homes remained strong, rising interest rates exerted negative pressure on the industry’s ability to secure debt financing according to the
Even as the economy appears to be gaining traction thanks to the flood of low-cost stimulus money that has flowed through U.S.capital markets, commercial real estate executives and economists vacillate between wonder and
Every once in a while it’s appropriate to devote a column to young people trying to get started. An adult grandchild reading this might be willing to engage in a conversation that needs
I believe that one of my tenant’s children broke a staircase railing at my apartment building. Another tenant complained that the railing is dangerous and if it is not repaired it could lead to someone falling on the staircase. I asked the tenant