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- Written by: Steve Abramowitz | Landlord Property Management Magazines
My father was built like a linebacker and hollered like a coach. One evening in the late 1950s, I accompanied him as he went door-to-door to collect rents. A tenant called Schoenfeld—I only recall his surname—paid his rent reliably, but he was always a month late and he didn’t include the late fee. This drove my father “nuts.” That night, he unloaded on him. When I asked my father why he had to be so hard on Schoenfeld, he had a few choice words for me, too.
“Stevie, you’ll go to one of those pom-pom colleges,” my father said. “I graduated from the school of hard knocks. You’re too soft. Don’t be a wimpy landlord.”
- Written by: Greg Garrison | ggarrison@al.com | AL.com
A Samford University graduate has filed an appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court on a case in which he alleges Samford University wrongfully seized a fraternity house and never paid the house corporation run by alumni.
Read more: Appeal filed challenging Samford University’s seizure of fraternity house
- Written by: Radwan Azim | The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.
Members of Greek life expressed frustration toward Penn’s requirement that sophomores live on campus — which excludes fraternity and sorority housing — one year after the policy was implemented.
- Written by: Andrew Crossan
The Sigma Chi Fraternity Board of Grand Trustees in collaboration with Constantine Housing Initiative (CHI), and the Risk Management Foundation (RMF) are proud to announce the winners of the Outstanding House Corporation Award for the 2021-22 school year.
Top Housing Corporations - Best of the Best
Winners receive a 3 % reduction in Risk Management Foundation (RMF) property insurance rates.
| Corporation | College/University |
|---|---|
| Kappa Kappa Corporation of Sigma Chi | University of Illinois- Urbana |
| Alpha Nu House Corporation | University of Texas - Austin |
| Sigma Chi Building Association | University of Washington |
Read more: Outstanding House Corporation Award Winners - 2021-22 School Year
- Written by: Rick Sobey | rick.sobey@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
‘Scammers are cashing in on renters’
As college students scramble to find off-campus housing at the last minute, FBI Boston and local police are sounding the alarm about too-good-to-be-true rental scams in the region’s highly competitive real estate market.
- Written by: Andrew Gaug, St. Joseph News-Press, Mo.
Rising rents have been hitting many U.S. households hard in recent months.
After remaining flat for most of 2020, the national median rent rose by 17.6% in 2021 and is already up another 6.7% year-over-year in 2022. And as the largest regular expense that most households face, the rise in housing costs is squeezing budgets in every other category.
Read more: Rising rent prices present challenges for college students
- Written by: Elissa Nadworny | NPR
Millions of students are heading back to college for their third full academic year since the COVID pandemic hit. But as students move into their dorms and sign up for classes this year, things are different.
Read more: Colleges ease COVID-19 restrictions as fall semester begins for millions of students