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Is Renters' Insurance Really Necessary?
You and your landlord share a common goal: You both want to ensure the protection of your interests. Obtaining a security deposit from you -- usually ranging from $100 to a full month's rent, and ave...
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8 Tips for Renting the Right Apartment
So, you're looking for an apartment to rent or share with a roommate. Whether you're a first-timer or an experienced apartment-hunter, it's worth taking the time to decide what's most important to yo...
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Pet Policies: Pleading Your Case Successfully
I was spending the evening with friends, a married couple who had just moved into an immaculate, upscale apartment community in North Dallas. Their two "children" were a good-natured cat and a very l...
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Signing a Roommate Pre-nup
You're just graduating from college. You and your new roommate are moving into your first off-campus apartment. Now you can just kick back, relax, and enjoy the real world. Right? Wrong! The real wor...
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How to Create the Illusion of Space
By positioning mirrors in the right places, you have the power to make any room appear larger. Whether you live in a loft, or a four bedroom house, you can follow these tips to make small areas more ...
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Do I Need Renter's Insurance?
If you are moving into an apartment you may want to consider investing in insurance. Along with the first month's rent, chances are you will be asked to pay a security deposit. This is a type of insu...
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The Bare Necessities
You're a twentysomething fresh out of college. You've landed a job, and the world is your oyster. Tonight, you're spending your first night in your new apartment. Or perhaps you're newly single and s...
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Apartment Living: The Need for Fire Insurance
If your apartment catches on fire due to the negligence of a neighbor, it could cost you thousands of dollars. It doesn’t seem fair that someone else’s carelessness could cost you your prized possess...
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Apartment Locators: How Do They Make Their Money?
If you're looking for an apartment in a hurry, apartment location services are a convenient, efficient route to your next home. The vast majority of these services are free, and if you happen to live...
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Apartment Searches: Lose the Rose-Colored Glasses First
If you're getting ready to rent, don't do what this editor did once ... a long, long time ago. Don't walk into the unit -- particularly if it's not the same unit you're getting ("It's pretty similar,...
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Keeping Renters Happy
The results of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) recent bi-annual housing survey supports what the multi-family housing industry has already known for a long time - that given the opportuni...
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To Buy or Rent For Your College Student
September always means Back To School, and for thousands of families it also signals Off To College. In addition, more and more young people are opting to continue their education with post-graduate ...
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Apartment-Hunting Season Returns: How to Arm Yourself
If you're on the hunt for an apartment right now, you've probably noticed that you're in good company. Each weekend, hordes of hunters arrive at the newest and most luxurious complexes. The apartment...
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Marketplace Overtaking Rent Control,
Rent control is one of those concepts that seems like a good idea, at least until you think about it for more than 60 seconds -- an unusual event in an era of bumper-sticker philosophies and instant ...
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Beaches, and Three-Quarter Fried Chickens
MACON,GA.- Pretty soon, I’m taking my family over to Tybee Island. We started going there back in 1986, and have continued to do so each summer since. We’ve had some great times there over the years,...
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Online Shopping – Is It Really So Great?
Online shopping - is it really so great? That is the question among many consumers in the United States. There are many that would rather go to the local shopping mall to make their purchases. Per...
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Rental Maintenance and Repairs: Who Pays The Bills?
Renting property is an arrangement where the needs of owners and tenants generally overlap: The tenant wants a clean and safe home and the landlord wants rent and someone who will care for the proper...
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Your Responsibility To Promptly Submit Repair Requests To Your Landlord
As a tenant in a rental community, you have some advantages over homeowners. For example, you don’t need to worry about making simple maintenance repairs. What you DO need to worry about is submittin...
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Dealing With Noisy Neighbors the Pacifist Way
Joe Landlord just received a phone call about a busted water pipe in apartment 3c, an overflowing washing machine in 2d and a broken window in 4a, so Suzy Tenant’s complaint about the “noisy neighbor...
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The Minefields in Your Lease
In some markets across the country -- San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C., for example -- the renters' market is so hot that properties are snatched up the same day they become available. In...
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