Tag Archive: bailouts

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Landlord Tenant News: May 1 to May 7, 2010

L.A. City Council narrowly agrees to consider four-month rent hike moratorium. Wells Fargo reducing rents at Page Mill. Foreclosures hit 6,560 Chicago rental buildings in 2009. On the Chopping Block: The Office of the Tenant Advocate Tenant Advocates Back One-Year Rent Freeze in Los Angeles. ilicon Valley apartment rents nudge upward.

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Landlord Tenant News: February 13 to February 19, 2010

Judge Throws Out Bank Eviction– Calls into Question Validity of Evictions Across California; A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods; Finding the right roommate can be tricky; Worry at Stuyvesant Town as Foreclosure Draws Near; Tenants left high and dry after Church of England abandons New York towers

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Landlord Tenant News: January 16 to January 22, 2010

N.Y.C. Tries Saving Housing Imperiled by Investors; SF City Attorney Sues Landlord For Endangering Safety of Tenants; Landlord’s Defamation Suit Against Tenant Over Moldy Apartment Tweet Dismissed; North Beach: parking, owners, tenants all unwelcome; More Lembi buildings sell; Problems Mount at a Bronx Building Bought in a Bubble

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Tenants, Thugs and CDOs

A local tale of unmitigated greed and the criminal enterprise of one family to corner the residential real estate market in San Francisco, buying large rent controlled buildings and ousting long-term tenants by any means possible led to the shady world of collateralized debt obligations, derivatives and the real villains.

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