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There’s been a lot of discussion recently about pets, service animals, and companion animals, especially in property management and real estate circles. This is a hot topic when it comes to renting out your property in California, and you’ll need to be prepared to address tenants who have these animals.

My father was built like a linebacker and hollered like a coach. One evening in the late 1950s, I accompanied him as he went door-to-door to collect rents. A tenant called Schoenfeld—I only recall his surname—paid his rent reliably, but he was always a month late and he didn’t include the late fee. This drove my father “nuts.” That night, he unloaded on him. When I asked my father why he had to be so hard on Schoenfeld, he had a few choice words for me, too.

“Stevie, you’ll go to one of those pom-pom colleges,” my father said. “I graduated from the school of hard knocks. You’re too soft. Don’t be a wimpy landlord.”

The Sigma Chi Fraternity Board of Grand Trustees in collaboration with Constantine Housing Initiative (CHI), and the Risk Management Foundation (RMF) are proud to announce the winners of the Outstanding House Corporation Award for the 2021-22 school year.

Top Housing Corporations - Best of the Best

Winners receive a 3 % reduction in Risk Management Foundation (RMF) property insurance rates.

‘Scammers are cashing in on renters’

As college students scramble to find off-campus housing at the last minute, FBI Boston and local police are sounding the alarm about too-good-to-be-true rental scams in the region’s highly competitive real estate market.

Rising rents have been hitting many U.S. households hard in recent months.

After remaining flat for most of 2020, the national median rent rose by 17.6% in 2021 and is already up another 6.7% year-over-year in 2022. And as the largest regular expense that most households face, the rise in housing costs is squeezing budgets in every other category.

Millions of students are heading back to college for their third full academic year since the COVID pandemic hit. But as students move into their dorms and sign up for classes this year, things are different.

A tight housing market and renewed desire for campus life have left some schools with long waiting lists for dorms

The end of summer is always stressful for Jordan Hubbard, as he tries to find a place to live for the upcoming semester. This year is even worse: Military benefits that helped him pay for tuition and housing at New York University ended this spring. He needs the money he’s earning from two jobs this summer, as well as a stipend for his role in student government, to pay for classes.