Apartment Choice

by Alec MacGillis Maryland’s two U.S. senators and four of its U.S. House representatives , all Democrats, sent a letter today to the large real- estate company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump ’s son-in-law and senior adviser, demanding information about the company’s management of 17 apartment complexes it owns in the state. The letter to Kushner Companies came in response to a May 23 article co-published by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine investigating management practices at the rental complexes, most of which are in the suburbs of Baltimore, as well as an article this week in The Baltimore Sun that revealed additional details . The original story described the highly aggressive legal tactics that Kushner Companies has used to pursue tenants who owed back rent or had left their leases early — even tenants who left the complexes well before the company bought them in 2012 and the years following. In many of the hundreds of cases brough...

by Henry Rosoff WACO - Two prominent Waco-area apartment complexes are regularly suing their tenants. Saddle Brook and Saddle Brook West have filed justice court lawsuits against former tenants for both damages and unpaid fees.  Attorney Jeffrey Sprigg represents the Dallas- owned complexes in most of these cases.  He said his client is simply collecting money it is owed. "Rather than to follow other industry practices in terms of going through third party collection agencies that call at odd hours and harass everyone, they have chosen to have a third party, an arbiter in the form of a judge or in rare cases a jury, determine their rights with regard to the breach of the lease contract," Sprigg said. However, local attorneys defending several people being sued, said Saddle Brook is going too far. "Just in the light of my cases alone and I've got calls about others, it does appears this is kind of their 'MO,'" said Josh Tetens.  He's represent...

Call it affordable. Call it cheap. The fact is that those people renting apartments in Columbus enjoy some of the least expensive rates in the United States, according to Apartment List , a listing website that tracks the industry. August data show that Columbus, out of 100 markets nationwide, has the fifth- lowest median lease rates , with a one-bedroom averaging $640 a month and a two-bedroom going for $760 monthly. The lowest — or cheapest — rents on the list are in Wichita, Kan., with $560 for a one-bedroom unit and $750 for two bedrooms. It is followed by Fayetteville, N.C., Fort Wayne, Ind., Toledo, Ohio, and Columbus. Rounding out the Top 10 most affordable cities in terms of apartment rents are Huntsville, Ala., Winston-Salem, N.C., Cleveland, Ohio, Oklahoma City, Okla., and Des Moines, Iowa. Other Southeastern cities on the list and their affordability rankings are Montgomery, Ala. (15), Knoxville, Tenn. (31), Birmingham, Ala. (34), Tallahassee, Fla. (42), Jacksonville, F...

The Tiburon Apartments 9130- 9220 Olson Memorial Hwy ., Golden Valley Type: Rental apartments Units: 142 Lot size: 2.7 acres Developer: Dunbar Development Corp . Details: The concept for a new, 142-unit, market- rate apartment building on the site of a former bowling alley along Hwy. 55 in Golden Valley has received a thumbs-up from the City Council.  The council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval for a planned unit development for The Tiburon Apartments from Golden Valley- based Dunbar Development Corp ., builder of such apartment complexes as Hoigaard Village in St. Louis Park and Laurel Village in Minneapolis. The plans still must receive final approval before ground can be broken for the U-shaped, six-story building in the northeast quadrant of the Hwy. 55 and Hwy. 169 intersection. Earlier plans called for five stories, but developers received a variance. Golden Valley has long targeted the 2.7-acre area as a potential redevelopment site . It currently has a pair of struc...

Autumn Creek Apartments in East Amherst has been sold for $15.5 million to a group of investors who own other luxury apartment complexes in the region. The investors acquired the 228-unit community on North French Road , west of Transit Road. It was sold by an affiliate of Legacy Development, which developed the property several years ago. The buyers also own Windsong Place Apartments in Amherst, Renaissance Place Apartments in Amherst, Green Lake Apartments in Orchard Park and StoneGate of Clarence, a senior community. Autumn Creek Apartments consists of 48 one- bedroom apartments and 180 two- bedroom apartments . Bruce Wisbaum, a local developer who is among the investors who make up Autumn Creek Apartments LLC , said he was drawn by the property's large units, its buildings' layout and its location in a growing area that includes CrossPoint Business Park . "It's a very competitive environment to try to acquire apartments ," he said. The new owners are ma...

Quizzes Lists Topics Save The River Terrace Apartments is an apartment building located at 7700 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1] River Terrace Apartments was one of the first two garden apartment complexes built in Michigan which used loan guarantees from the Federal Housing Administration , the other being Hillcrest Village in East Lansing. [2] History By the late 19th century , the corridor along East Jefferson Avenue had become a prestigious residential neighborhood . As the automobile age dawned in the twentieth century and Detroit's population boomed, large upscale apartment buildings were constructed along the Avenue. However, this boom in apartment construction collapsed at the start of the Great Depression. However, in 1939, Wesson Seyburn, along with Leonard P. Reaume, of the property management firm of Holden & Reaume, applied for a building permit to construct this apart...