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Apartment fundamentals should improve next year. As mortgage rates have fallen to four-decade lows, more folks have told the landlord to shove it and bought a house. Home ownership is at a record 69%. That trend, along with a weak economy that forced others to double up or move back home with Mom, drove the apartment vacancy rate to 7.1% last quarter, a 16-year high, reports REIS Inc., a real estate research firm. In many markets, rents have been declining...
Chili’s abrupt closing surprised patrons, students and even the landlord...
...Landlord Erich H. Imhof said he did not know what would replace the eatery...
However, this year Art Squatters will not be able to use the same space to store paints due to fire hazard concerns. “The landlord [of Tommy’s Value], Janet, decided that we shouldn’t keep any more paints where we had stored them last year due to fire hazards,” Gogel says
...still hurt there. Jones had a tough childhood: his father wasn't around, and his mother washed dishes and scrubbed floors to support him and his sister and brother, who is disabled. His mother never learned to read, and they moved 18 times in 18 years. Once a landlord took the windows out of their frames when his mother didn't pay the rent. "I think in a certain sense you do what you were born to do," he says. "And maybe, maybe, I was born to write. But I was also born poor...