Topic: Peggy Abkemeier
1) "This building is in foreclosure. In late 2009, Melody Thompson called her landlords to ask about the well-dressed picture-takers outside her four-bedroom Portland rental home. "I was immediately angry," says Thompson, the executive director of Financial Beginnings, a financial literacy nonprofit ...
"It's still a tenant's market, but that's changing quickly," Nadji says. Someone negotiating in December could get a better rate than someone signing a new lease during the peak summer moving season, Abkemeier says.. Phoenix, Atlanta, Las Vegas and ...
Last year, landlords were pulling out all the stops to get renters to sign a lease. com, talks about the economic forces impacting the rental market, strategies for negotiating your lease and avoiding broker fees.
When a garden apartment became available in Jackson La Land's Manhattan brownstone last year, he was anxious to grab it-just not at the $3,000 a month rent his landlord was asking. Using the soft housing market to his advantage, La ...
You bought your house for $300,000 a few years ago. " says John Vogel, a professor of real estate at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Rising unemployment has dampened rental housing demand and contributed to a 3.4% decline in ...
They want energy-efficient appliances to cut costly bills and flexible leases in case of a job loss, landlords and apartment managers say.Paid utilities and washers and dryers in units topped the amenities list for renters from February to August on ApartmentGuide ...
Learning what other people in your building and neighborhood are paying for comparable properties can help you figure out whether you're overpaying, and how much room you have to negotiate, says Steven Cohen, the president of consulting firm The Negotiation Skills ...
