SOUTH BEND — A local landlord with a history of legal trouble recently lost judgments in separate cases awarding more than $1.1 million in damages to two tenants, one of whom was allegedly swindled out of her home while the other allegedly suffered broken bones in her leg and ankle while moving into a house […]
A family in Colorado is calling the practices of a global real estate company “unethical” after they were charged over $4,000 in fees when their mother died in one of the company’s apartments. Leticia Farrer moved into the complex owned by Greystar last October. She died unexpectedly in January; days later, the family says, it […]
Mar. 2—More than a year after Española police officers forced Samuel Herrera out of his longtime home at Santa Clara Apartments, he still lacks housing. He was one of dozens of residents who struggled for months to find a place to live after Española city officials abruptly condemned one of the region’s few low-income apartment […]
An Ohio woman has pleaded guilty to charges of making false statements after officials say she accused her landlord of sending racist text messages. In March 2023, the 33-year-old woman met with agents from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to show the agents “discriminatory messages” she said her landlord sent her, according […]
A Cincinnati woman who publicly accused her landlord of racism to fight an eviction pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges. Dermisha Pickett, 33, claimed in a lawsuit her landlord violated the Fair Housing Act by telling her he did not want to rent to her anymore because she was Black. She fabricated text messages she […]
An elderly Los Angeles woman took her own life following an eviction dispute that left another victim hospitalized. KTLA reports the incident took place Friday morning at an apartment building in Northridge, where a district manager at the complex was shot after getting into an argument with one of her tenants. The 40-year-old victim was […]
The risk of dying in a house fire is 55% lower in homes that have a functioning smoke alarm, according to the National Fire Protection Association. But ensuring that all Milwaukee residents have functional smoke alarms continues to be a challenge, said Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski after a series of fires in the last […]
Jesse Jones: Puyallup landlord says nightmare tenants trashed late wife’s house Glen Jasmer is a widower and a reluctant landlord. Dana, Glen’s late wife owned the home when the two got married. After renting it in 2020 it’s become a legal nightmare. “She recently passed and I’m glad she passed so that she doesn’t have […]
A property firm faces trial for failing to comply with a fire safety notice issued over a “potentially dangerous building” in Dublin. Green Label Property Investments Limited of Reuben House, Reuben Street, Dublin 8, was summonsed to face prosecution by Dublin City Council. The case was listed before Judge Michael Ramsey at Dublin District Court […]
A Kansas City woman was awarded $40,000 after renting a home on the East Side where she was subjected to unsafe conditions, including living without electricity, a jury found. In 2017, Mary Smith and her then-teenage son became tenants in a two-bedroom house near 50th and The Paseo owned by Charles White and Sheldon Gray, […]
Landlord wanted for killing Clayton County mother arrested in Las Vegas, police confirm Police have confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that a man who was wanted in a double shooting that left a mother dead has been arrested. Officers found 35-year-old Monique Miles dead from several gunshot wounds in a house in Clayton County […]
Jan. 16—GOSHEN — A Goshen-based landlord received little consolation when he attempted to save a rental home from demolition near Stone Lake on Monday. Elkhart County Commissioners told landlord Ron Davidhizar and his assistant Marlon “Maxx” Banks that if they hoped to see any resolution, they’d have to speak through their hired attorney. Banks spoke […]