Mar 25th 2010 1:30PM
Tenants: have you ever thought you could do a better job keeping up your building than your landlord does? With help from a tireless advocate, some New York City renters are about to get the chance to do just that. The familiar story -- a building stays full despite questionable maintenance, a landlord fails to pay... Continue Reading »
Nov 14th 2009 8:00AM
Did you miss this week's top stories on RentedSpaces? We covered bad landlords, mini-pigs, good landlords and, uhm, how to win a dang ski house! Check it: Landlord Does Time in His Own Fecal-Filled Rental - Yuk - and ha, ha. Award Winning "Bottle" House - Don't you wish you could rent it?! 70 Percent of... Continue Reading »
Nov 13th 2009 5:00PM
Bad landlords, mostly! And our story of a bad landlord in Virginia who was put under house arrest in his slum-rental property inspired quite a debate. Some chimed in with an atta-boy, judge calling the landlord "the worst of mankind," while others blame the "nefarious" tenants who "crapped in the shed" and deriding them... Continue Reading »
Nov 5th 2009 3:00PM
According to Forbes, now is a pretty great time to rent. The housing crisis means that tenants can haggle with landlords for lower rent and in May the federal government passed a law allowing tenants of foreclosed homes to stay put for the remainder of their lease. So you don't have to be worried about ending up on the... Continue Reading »
Oct 22nd 2009 10:00AM
Choose from these terrible options: bed bugs, black mold, or sewage leaking into your apartment. Your choice would probably be to move out - and fast! Great, if you can afford it. The renters in these two Brooklyn apartment buildings are not so fortunate. News recently surfaced that they've endured some of the most vile... Continue Reading »
