A candidate for the Hennepin County Board in Minnesota was arrested on assault charges after she was accused of throwing a live tarantula at her tenant. Marisa Simonetti told NBC News on Thursday that the incident stemmed from local attorney Jackie Vasquez’s alleged refusal to leave her property. Vasquez disputed Simonetti’s version of events, accusing […]
Alison Weinsweig told BI she lost over $170,000 in rent and spent almost 3 years trying to evict a tenant. When she eventually got access to the apartment, she found it in disarray. She said she cried after seeing blood-stained floors, cigarette burns, and a life-sized dummy. When Alison Weinsweig, 67, rented her luxury Westwood […]
Jun. 25—BIDDEFORD — Jamie Wakefield met Douglas “Doug” Michaud Jr. in 2019 while he was playing pool. “He said he saw me and it looked like I had a beam of light on me, and he knew I was the one,” Wakefield, 29, told a jury on Tuesday. “We were inseparable.” Wakefield, who watched Michaud […]
Tenants of the troubled Independence Towers apartment building started their week coping with the chaos of a fire, and finished it in negotiations with their new landlord, just prior to learning a fellow resident was charged with arson. On Thursday, The Independence Towers Tenant Union, along with the KC Tenants Union, brought TriGild Inc. Vice […]
Residents of several dozen units at Independence Towers were displaced early Monday morning after a fire damaged the building. Eric Michel, Battalion Chief of Fire Prevention in Independence, said tenants in 27 apartments were evacuated due to smoke and fire damage to three floors of the building. Fire officials responded to the multi-story apartment building […]
A numbered rendering depicts the buildings that are expected to be the first to open as early as fall 2025 in the pictured CYTown entertainment district to be north of Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa. No. 1 is a medical clinic, 2) retail and office space, 3) 20 luxury apartments with retail space on […]
A woman rented her $1.675 million Los Angeles home to a musician in 2022. According to the LA Times, he then illegally sublet it on Airbnb while living on another continent. The illegal Airbnb listings generated $215,950 — about $13,500 per month, according to the Times. A 31-year-old woman rented her $1.675 million Los Angeles […]
In the basement of a Centralia funeral home in a dark hallway off the embalming room, tucked inside a nook behind two steel plates and a door, a visitor found three disembodied, neatly wrapped human legs, two of them marked with names and dated to the 1960s. The discovery stunned property owner Cindy Hansen, who […]
US Healthcare Landlord Medical Properties Trust’s Largest Tenant Steward Health Goes Bankrupt, Sparks Regulatory Concerns Medical Properties Trust Inc’s (NYSE:MPW) tenant Steward Health Care plunged into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, posing significant financial risks for hospitals across eight states. State regulators, alarmed by the precarious situation, have intensified scrutiny over the Steward Health Care System. With a network of […]
When Stacey Baker, 57, saw a notice to vacate on the ground outside her apartment door in February, her thoughts spiraled through all the sudden bills she’d have to pay. She would have about seven weeks to pack up her belongings, find her next apartment, hire movers, and scrounge up the funds to cover application […]
Apr. 16—The leader of a tenant union at an Española apartment complex lost a recent eviction hearing but vowed his and other residents’ fight in a long-running battle against Las Lomas Apartments is “far from over.” The Alianza Tenant Union, led by tenant Dylan Schwaegel, formed last year in response to claims of declining conditions […]
A fire early Sunday at a Des Moines apartment complex left one resident severely injured and displaced several others, police said. A caller reported smoke in the hallways of 6010 Creston Ave. in the River Oaks Apartments, a little over a mile south of Valley Junction on the Racoon River, about 12:30 a.m. When police […]