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Meeting Renters Where They Are

Appraisal Buzz

This article originally appeared in the January 2025 edition of MortgagePoint magazine, online now. Currently, the property management industrys reliance on legacy payout processes can lead to refund errors and delays that inconvenience tenants when moving into their new homes.

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Lease-Purchase Arrangements: Another Path to Homeownership?

Appraisal Buzz

The buyer rents the home as a tenant first, typically paying an up-front fee or down payment under an option contract to preserve the right to purchase the property within a set time period. For example, the sellers, usually also the landlords, are generally responsible for keeping the property safe and livable for tenants.

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Opinion: I wish millennials would stop complaining about housing and rent prices

Housing Wire

Tenant protections are a key priority within HouseATL’s 2023 Strategic Recommendations. As detailed in HouseATL’s recent Saporta Report article , Georgia has a dire shortage of safe, decent, affordable housing and very weak tenant protection laws. The bill has reached the Senate Rules Committee.

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Your Guide to Optimizing LinkedIn for Real Estate Agents

Housing Wire

Related article How to write a lead-winning, memorable real estate agent bio (+ examples) 2. According to one of LinkedIns own articles, video content receives five times more engagement than standard text posts and is 20 times more likely to be shared. That same article tells us that how-to posts perform 31.5%

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Amazon commits $10.6M to affordable housing in Nashville

Housing Wire

The grant for CrossBridge’s project that provides housing and supportive services to adults overcoming addiction, allows affordable rents for tenants and provides long-term subsidies, the firm added. . Over the past two years, Amazon gave Puget Sound developments more than $344.3 million in loans and gave $94 million to Nashville.

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Some baby boomers are finding homeownership to be less beneficial

Housing Wire

The article also notes that reverse mortgages are a potentially valuable tool for seniors in the current housing environment. Even homeowners who have paid off their mortgage may be finding that their available equity is not enough to downsize, according to a story published Saturday by The New York Times.

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10 Landlord-Tenant Laws Every Landlord Should Know

BiggerPockets

Landlord-tenant laws can be complicated and have a lot of grey areas. This article lists out 10 critical laws you must know before renting out property.