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Posts tagged “rent”

Do You Pay a Fair Amount for Rent?

A friend of ours did a pretty impressive thing recently: she refused the annual increase in her rent, citing several issues with the unit, alongside noting the state of economy. The owner caved in an...

Renters: When Do You Blast the Stereo?

Apartment Therapy has already helped you deal with noisy neighbors before. But what about when you are the noisy neighbor? What's a big-city musician supposed to do when he's not yet hit it big and jo...

LA Good Questions: Help, I Heard My Building May Be Torn Down!

A nervous neighbor of ours, knowing we blogged for AT, left an anonymous note under our door: Help, my landlord's a tyrant. He won't let us use our building's parking spaces and now I hear that he's...

Foreclosures Hit Renters Hard In LA

According to the state's largest organization of rental property owners, the California Apartment Association, a quarter of all foreclosed single-family residences are occupied by renters. That means ...