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Sage Hill homeowners fight back after legal threat over unpaid fees

Post Author By Rimuru
Post Date July 14, 2024

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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Jun 26, 2022 • June 26, 2022 • 3 minute read • 7 Comments

FILE PHOTO: The neighborhoods of Sage Hill and Evanston on the northern edge of Calgary were photographed on Thursday April 26, 2018. Gavin Young/Postmedia

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

Post Author By Rimuru
Post Date July 12, 2024

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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Rent increases fights by tenants across NYC as Rent Guidelines Board weighs potential hikes of up to 7%

Post Author By Rimuru
Post Date June 19, 2023

For many in Queens, rent increases of up to 7% under consideration citywide by the Rent Guidelines Board will drive them to make choices difficult.

“Asking people to choose between rent and food and medicine is beyond unfair, it’s obscene and amoral and [a] driving force in the housing crisis today,” said Douglas, an Elmhurst retired, during the board hearing on rates for rent-stabilized units at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center on Monday evening.

“If I get squeezed any more I’ll be living out of a cardboard box on the street.”

Speakers became emotional as they expressed frustration with their

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

Post Author By Rimuru
Post Date May 22, 2023

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 control battles looms but it’s never been easy to pass tenant protections on Beacon Hill

Post Author By Rimuru
Post Date April 24, 2023

Feeling trapped, she refused to pay the increase. Somehow, she hasn’t been evicted, but knows she’s teetering on the edge. Her landlord sends her a letter each month detailing how much back rent she owes. The amount recently eclipsed $10,000.

“What else am I supposed to do?” said Lewis, 71, who has become a regular presence at rent control rallies in the city. “I’ve lived here 30 years; this is my home. And lord knows there’s nowhere else in Boston I could afford. This is my only choice.”

The owner of Lewis’s building, development firm DSF Group, did not return

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

Post Author By Rimuru
Post Date October 13, 2022

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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Jacksonville residents face higher housing costs with rent, utilities both rising

Post Author By Rimuru
Post Date October 11, 2022

The inflation rate in the US has hovered at over 8% for months, despite efforts to fight rising costs.

Whether on their JEA bills or rental agreements, at the gas pump or in the grocery store — where food inflation has risen to 11.4%, the most since 1979 — people are feeling economic pressure.

The annual inflation rate was down from 8.5% in July to 8.3% in August, the lowest in four months, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. But many families still saw higher-than-normal costs in their monthly budgets.

Solutions to combat housing crisis: What are other

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

Post Author By Rimuru
Post Date October 9, 2022

American Homes 4 Rent logo 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

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