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 […]
A man from Columbia who was in the process of being evicted was charged with murder Saturday, after Kentucky State Police said he fired shots into his landlord’s home, killing him. It happened Saturday morning on Montpelier Road in Adair County, when Joseph South, 57, went to the home of his landlord, Earl Coffey, 86, […]
‘A total nightmare’: This NY couple bought a $2M retirement dream home in Queens — only to find a squatter inside, who they’re now struggling to evict because he’s a ‘tenant’ under the law When Susana and Joseph Landa dropped $2 million on their dream home in Douglastown, Queens, they thought they were laying down […]
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 […]
The RoomPlace store in Peoria’s Northwoods Mall is closing, the furniture and mattress retailer announced in a Friday news release. Dates for the closing had not yet been determined. The century-old Chicago-based retailer said its voluntary Chapter 11 restructuring plan will refocus its efforts on strengthening its 18 Chicagoland stores. RoomPlace is also shuttering stores […]
Most renter protection programs launched during the pandemic in Los Angeles have expired, and tenants who couldn’t pay rent due to economic hardships brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak must pay rent again starting Thursday. That includes back rent owed from Oct. 1, 2021, to Jan. 31, 2023. Tenant advocates say it is preposterous to […]
Question: For 12 years, my sister has operated a business in a Phoenix-area shopping center. Last summer, she was delinquent in her rent, primarily because of season changes in her customer base. My sister eventually could pay the shopping center all of the delinquent rent, plus all of the shopping center’s attorneys fees and costs. […]