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Landlords: Pay Attention to Criminal Activity on Your Leasehold Property
On July 30, 2013, the Michigan Supreme Court issued an opinion in the case of Bailey v Schaaf, holding that Landlords have a duty to "make reasonable efforts to expedite police involvement" when put
Read More »Rent-collection warning for landlords
Landlords should be more careful and use safer methods to collect their outstanding rent from wayward tenants, police warned yesterday
Read More »Dallas-Based Tenant Screening Firm Announces National Searches on Applicants
Nationally-operating Tenant Background Search, a company based in Dallas, has announced its criminal and eviction background searches are now national in scope. These broader searches will help landlords reduce incidents of renting to applicants
Read More »Jacksonville joins crime-free program
To reduce crime, the Jacksonville Police Department has adopted the international program Crime Free Multi-Housing, and partnered with apartment managers in the city
Read More »Bad-pay tenant kills landlady with hammer
The country’s murder toll now stands at 227 following the death of businesswoman Vidya Persad. Persad was beaten to death close to her home yesterday on Moulla Trace, Aranjuez.
Read More »Dallas-Based Tenant Screening Firm Announces National Searches on Applicants
Nationally-operating Tenant Background Search, a company based in Dallas, has announced its criminal and eviction background searches are now national in scope.
Read More »DA: Pa. woman forging neighbor’s will, stole house
A western Pennsylvania woman forged a will and other documents as part of a scheme to take her dying elderly neighbor's home, which she then rented out, prosecutors said Friday
Read More »Colombia: Alleged mass murderer arrested
Colombia has detained an alleged former member of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) wanted in connection with the murders of dozens of tenant farmers in 2000, police said on July
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