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Homeowners ‘tearing their hair out’ over rising rates and rents

  • Post Author By Evo Plus
  • Post Date September 12, 2024
Homeowners ‘tearing their hair out’ over rising rates and rents
Homeowners ‘tearing their hair out’ over rising rates and rents

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During the financial crisis in 2008, Philip Wilson says he became a somewhat reluctant landlord.

The property market had slowed considerably so he decided to rent out, rather than sell, two properties – a flat and a house in North and West Yorkshire.

Now, the upheaval in the mortgage market means he is being forced to push up the rent for his tenants, and is considering whether he will eventually have to sell up.

“I really feel for my tenants,” the 64-year-old says. “One of them is really struggling, she pays her rent in parts when she

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Rent freeze Bill passes first stage at Holyrood

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  • Post Date August 26, 2024
Rent freeze Bill passes first stage at Holyrood

Legislation that would temporarily freeze rents and ban evictions in Scotland has passed its first stage in the Scottish Parliament.

MSPs backed the general principles of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Bill by 88 votes to 29 on Tuesday evening.

Stage two amendments will be taken on Wednesday and a final vote will happen on Thursday.

A motion to treat the Bill as emergency legislation was passed by 86 votes to 28 earlier on Tuesday.

Rent freeze Bill passes first stage at Holyrood

The Scottish Government minister appeared at a Holyrood committee on Tuesday ahead of the Bill being debated (Jane Barlow/PA)

The Scottish Tories voiced

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Legal aid lawyers in Quebec hold half-day strike

  • Post Author By Evo Plus
  • Post Date July 28, 2024
Legal aid lawyers in Quebec hold half-day strike

A group of legal aid lawyers is going on strike for half a day on Monday, while the renewal of their collective agreement remains unresolved with the Quebec government.

The group is made up of lawyers attached to the CSN-affiliated Fédération des professionnels, who were on strike in the morning after they walked out earlier this month.

In mid-June, lawyers in the Montreal-Laval, Bas Saint-Laurent-Gaspésie and Laurentides-Lanaudière regions also voted in favor of another strike mandate, this time for seven days, to be exercised at the appropriate time.

The other group, the Fédération des avocates et avocats de l’aide juridique,

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Hurricane Ian: Here’s how renters can avoid panic and prepare for natural disasters: Severe storms, wildfires

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  • Post Date July 15, 2024
Hurricane Ian: Here’s how renters can avoid panic and prepare for natural disasters: Severe storms, wildfires

The US has experienced nine weather and climate disasters with losses exceeding $1 billion each as of July of this year, according to the National Climate Data Center. These events have included one drought and eight severe storms. Four other weather events, including the current Hurricane Ian, have been declared major disasters by FEMA since July.

Whether you’re a renter or a homeowner, preparation is key, says Jeffrey Hussey, the director of Public Interest & Litigation at Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, a nonprofit law firm.

“Mistakes can be made if you are rushing or panicked,” he says. “If you

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NJFOG Examine Finds Systemic Lack of Compliance with the Open Public Conferences Act

  • Post Author By Evo Plus
  • Post Date July 5, 2024
Legal aid lawyers in Quebec hold half-day strike

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Jersey Basis for Open Authorities, March 2021

New Jersey’s native governments, on common, are solely 60 p.c in compliance with the New Jersey Open Public Conferences Act (OPMA), in keeping with a examine launched by the New Jersey Basis for Open Authorities (NJFOG).

The OPMA, handed into regulation in 1975, has remained comparatively unchanged over 45 years. The first function of the OPMA is to conduct authorities conferences in public, maintain a document of public conferences, and to present the general public satisfactory discover.

In what’s the first statewide examine of municipalities, native authorities and boards

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Travel to beautiful places for less money, and live like a local: Why retirees should try house swapping

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  • Post Date October 13, 2022
Travel to beautiful places for less money, and live like a local: Why retirees should try house swapping

Barbara Costello, 72, spent a month this summer on vacation in the South of France. The trip was incredible, especially because she got to go with her husband and several of her adult children and young grandchildren. “It was something I never thought we would be able to afford to do all together,” says Costello.

The Costello family kept the trip’s cost down by participating in a house swap. “My daughter Liz owns a home in the Hamptons [beach towns in New York],” explains Costello, the TikTok sensation behind Brunch with Babs. “She decided to rent it out over the

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