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Roman A Elizarov How Bad Investment in a Bad Neighborhood Reversed to a Good One Occasionally
25 February 2024 | 5 replies
In November 2018, I purchased a $63,000 ruined house on the South Side of Chicago, in an African-American neighborhood, and started renovating it, both with my own hands and with outside experts in plumbing, electrical, etc.
AJ Wong What are your top STR Hacks? Here are four that worked for us and our clients.
27 February 2024 | 4 replies
Also, having an "Instagrammable moment" like a mural with your own hashtag on it as a focal point makes the social media game much more intuitive for your guests.For those with retreat properties who need to hunt down event clients, I'm hearing great things about South African VAs for outside sales. 
Maura McGraw Modern Home Subdivision in Mount Olive, AL?
3 May 2018 | 6 replies
Most of the new houses being built seem to have a South African Dutch, Colonial, Farmhouse, or Tudor style (depending on the area) are combination thereof.   
Wes Blackwell How Universal Basic Income Could Change Real Estate Investing
29 January 2020 | 197 replies
When I go into a Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts, Chipotle, Pot Bellies, Just Salad, Chop't, or literally any food retail establishment, the employees are 99% African American.
Lora H. Prospective Tenant contacted Landlord's FB friends w/o telling me
24 February 2016 | 32 replies
My next door neighbor was renting his house out and not once but twice, I had a knock on the door of a potential tenant ask me if my neighbor was a doctor in some African country. 
John W. Can you refuse to rent to Section 8?
26 April 2018 | 14 replies
No lie, the applicant was an African-American girl with that on her forehead. 
Jim Cummings Landlord Guilty Of Not Stopping Discrimination
28 March 2019 | 6 replies
Do Property Managers Have A Duty To Protect Tenants From Known DiscriminationMarch 20, 2019Federal appellate court determines that a landlord can be liable under the federal Fair Housing Act (“FHA”) for failing to protect a tenant from discrimination when the landlord is on notice that another tenant is targeting the tenant.An African American individual (“Tenant”) leased an apartment in a multi-unit apartment complex (“Complex”) managed by a property management company (“Manager”).
Freddy C. Rental scam on my property
28 March 2011 | 15 replies
honestly, if someone is stupid enough to send a SD without looking at the interior condition of a rental I would not feel sorry for them being scammed.It's unfortunate that they have your house and interior pictures but - that is the risk of the internet, it's all public domain.99.9% sure this 'transaction' is a London/Central African scam...this happens alot on CL.
Jay C. Really __ “Racist for landlords not to rent to felons”
2 November 2016 | 10 replies
African Americans are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated at higher rates than non-African Americans.
Ivan Jenkins Applying Fair Housing Standards to Criminal Records?!?
12 April 2016 | 12 replies
Across the United States, African Americans and Hispanics are arrested, convicted and incarcerated at rates disproportionate to their share of the general population.