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Brookfield Properties audited its utility billing databases and the attorney general issued a consumer protection alert after ...
The attorney general’s office will email approximately 19,500 tenants, inviting them to submit a claim for restitution.
What started out as fees for luxury amenities morphed into a juggernaut to charge tenants extra — even for the act of paying rent.
Tenants from two Los Angeles apartment buildings are demanding that their corporate landlord Equity Residential justify high and fluctuating monthly fees for water, trash, sewer and other utilities.
Push for transparency and limit excessive rental fees clear the Senate executive SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — Illinois is one ...
The EPA plans to shut down the Energy Star program—what does that mean for renters? Experts weigh in on the loss of the ...
Tenants of a Toronto rooming house were forced to sleep in their coats, boil water in order to bathe and go to the washroom in plastic bags, after basic services in their building were cut off for ...
Electricity rates are soaring in Pennsylvania and other parts of the country. 2 energy experts offer tips to lower your ...
Then, the landlord resells that service to tenants using ... that would ban most utility reselling in multi-family buildings and penalize violations with a misdemeanor charge.
A West Palm Beach landlord and an accomplice are accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars by exploiting COVID-19 rent ...
Sundramoorthy of Universiti Sains Malaysia. “If a tenant frequently has high utility bills, or if there are reports of electrical theft or meter tampering, he could be flagged in the system for ...