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American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE:AMH) Shares Purchased by Ellevest Inc.

Ellevest Inc. boosted its stake in American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE:AMH – Get Rating) by 86.2% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 728 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after acquiring an additional 337 shares during the period. Ellevest Inc.’s holdings in American Homes 4 Rent were worth $26,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in AMH. Norges Bank acquired a new position in American Homes 4 Rent in the

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Sage Hill homeowners fight back after legal threat over unpaid fees

Homeowners are petitioning for an extraordinary general meeting with the intention of removing the board members who threatened lawsuits over unpaid residents’ association fees

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Homeowners in northwest Calgary’s Sage Hill community are organizing a petition with the intention of removing their residents’ association’s board members after the association threatened hundreds of residents

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Rice notices need not be given to tenured school board employees

Under New Jersey’s Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA), a public agency may discuss taking adverse action against a public employee in a closed (executive) meeting unless the employee being discussed exercises his or her right to have the discussion conducted in public.

In order for the employee to meaningfully exercise that right, the public agency is required to give timely notice (ie a “Rice” notice, named after the 1977 case of Rice v. Union County Regional High School Board of Education) to any employee whose rights could be adversely affected by the intended private discussion.

In today’s published (and thus

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Despite fast-rising rents, the right moment has not arrived for rent control in Fresno

The Fresno City Council recently came under criticism for something that has not been done — rent control.

Some activists decided it was a good idea to get personal with their attacks. Specifically, they went after four of the seven council members because they happened to be owners of rental properties.

“They are landlords on the dais,” said Shar Thompson, the Central Valley regional coordinator with Tenants Together and a District 3 resident.

Her inference was that the property-owning council members have a vested interest to make sure that rent-increasing capping measures are not adopted.

As reported by Fresno Bee

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Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.

Some have complained high-paying tech jobs have driven up rents in major tech hubs — creating an exodus that will later drive up rents in other cities.

But ProPublica asks whether there’s another technology at work:

On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature products: software that uses a mysterious algorithm to help landlords push the highest possible rents on tenants. “Never before have we seen these numbers,” said Jay Parsons, a vice president of RealPage, as conventiongoers wandered by.

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American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE:AMH) Position Lifted by First Hawaiian Bank

First Hawaiian Bank raised its stake in shares of American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE:AMH – Get Rating) by 3.7% during the second quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund owned 15,945 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after acquiring an additional 574 shares during the quarter. First Hawaiian Bank’s holdings in American Homes 4 Rent were worth $565,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Charter Oak Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of American Homes 4 Rent during the second quarter