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Hundreds of tenants who are unable to pay their rent are jailed each year under Arkansas’ draconian ‘failure-to-vacate’ law. According to “Pay the Rent or Face Arrest: Abusive Impacts of Arkansas’ Criminal Evictions Law,” a new 44-page report from Human Rights Watch (HRW), hundreds of tenants face criminal charges each year for not

As of the end of 2012, the United States has experienced the worst five-year period of economic growth since 1928-1932 and the start of the Great Depression. Following the global financial crisis and recession in 2008, and based on the historical pattern of American economic recovery since the Depression years, the United States should have…

One thing that landlords usually all end up saying at some point is that they will never again pick up rents from their residents. For some it takes a little longer than others before they realize who is training who. If you are looking for alternative methods

Our “Million Dollar” Trade Show and Landlording Conference last month was a huge success! You should have been there! Our members were more educated, motivated and stimulated by some very knowledgeable speakers who helped give them that one idea that would help them make and keep more money than ever! Some even walked away with…

The practice of imposing late fees for their tenant’s failure to timely pay rent raises many issues for landlords. Unfortunately, these issues continue to cause many problems for landlords desiring to enforce late fee provisions contained in their rental agreements. While it’s pretty clear that a landlord can impose

New York.  An appellate court agrees a tenant cannot collect her attorneys’ fees against her landlord under a reciprocal rights theory because the attorneys’ fees provision she claimed the fees under was not contained in her original lease agreement.  The landlord and tenant entered into a written residential lease

In recent years, apartment buildings have become quite a popular investment option for real estate investors interested in finding good yields for their money. With mortgage underwriting guidelines tightening up considerably for residential properties (1 to 4 units), more real estate investors have decided to

Rental property owners need to be cautious when entering into a lease, whether oral or in writing – with a tenant if the lease terms are primarily negotiated in one of the following five foreign languages: Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese or Korean. If this occurs, then the owner must provide the tenant with

Hello everyone.  Nearly all members of the Apartment Owners Association own or manage one or more apartment buildings.  Many of them, as well as non-member readers of AOA magazine, own commercial property, or at least aspire to own non-residential investment property. For those who are involved with commercial real estate, my column this month will…

Q:  What is the different between an assignment of a lease or rental agreement and subletting? If a tenant assigns his right to rent a unit he is transferring all his rights to the new tenant.  If a tenant decides to sublet his right to rent, he is basically agreeing to let someone else rent…