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- By Kelsey Ogletree | The Wall Street Journal
These interior designers have built businesses off of Greek life, as sororities pursue million-dollar renovations to modernize their houses
Curled up on the couch in the traditionally decorated TV room of the Alpha Gamma Delta house at University of Kentucky in 2002, freshman Liz Toombs watched an episode of the reality show “Trading Spaces” that featured a sorority house redesign. “I didn’t think it was real, just that it was a made-for-TV moment,” she said.
Read more: Sorority House Design in the Age of Instagram and RushTok
- By Brian LeBow, Chief Executive Officer, Bell Properties
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.
Read more: A Landlord’s Guide to Pets, Service, and Companion Animals
- By Steve Abramowitz | Landlord Property Management Magazines
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.”
- By Greg Garrison | ggarrison@al.com | AL.com
A Samford University graduate has filed an appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court on a case in which he alleges Samford University wrongfully seized a fraternity house and never paid the house corporation run by alumni.
Read more: Appeal filed challenging Samford University’s seizure of fraternity house
- By Radwan Azim | The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
Members of Greek life expressed frustration toward Penn’s requirement that sophomores live on campus — which excludes fraternity and sorority housing — one year after the policy was implemented.
- By Andrew Crossan
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.
Corporation | College/University |
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Kappa Kappa Corporation of Sigma Chi | University of Illinois- Urbana |
Alpha Nu House Corporation | University of Texas - Austin |
Sigma Chi Building Association | University of Washington |
Read more: Outstanding House Corporation Award Winners - 2021-22 School Year
- By Rick Sobey | rick.sobey@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
‘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.