How can you conform to a law that has no specific, measurable requirements? Impossible? Perilous? Case in point are the occupancy standards for rental properties that HUD expects rental owners to abide by. A rental owner may have legitimate cause for limiting the number of people allowed to live in a property. That limit may […]

Who won’t be paying the rent next month? Half of US tenants can’t afford to pay their rent, CNN reported on January 24. Not surprising since the median rents have increased 30.5 percent since 2019, up $309, according to Zillow. Even though eviction filings have increased 50 percent from their pre-pandemic rates most tenants will […]

Law-abiding citizens don’t expect the police to come knocking on their doors with search warrants and raid their houses. But what if, unbeknownst to them, they aren’t law-abiding? That’s what happened to Adrian Hart of Toledo, Ohio. Adrian had applied for a “work from home” job and got hired by a company called Ovebone to […]

The owner of ABC Technology (not its real name) was surfing EBay looking for used equipment and found two new computers for sale across town that matched two she had seen delivered from a customer’s order the day before. Curiosity piqued, she discovered more than $300,000 in equipment sold on EBay by two of her […]

Crime does pay. Credit Karma made millions with their scam for which the Federal Trade Commission fined them $3 million, lunch money to Credit Karma. They garnered 2500 data points from each unsuspecting consumer who answered their ad that claimed they were pre-approved for a credit card. Those data points will provide a never-ending supply […]

Several years ago a lawyer called me who was representing a property owner who had been sued by someone who got injured on the owner’s property. The owner hadn’t done much maintenance, preventive or corrective, and the injury resulting from that lack of maintenance brought about the lawsuit. In what seemed to me like a […]

Eric Fischgrund runs Fisch Tank PR, a PR firm employing 30 people. Clients mailed 15 checks to him that a crook or crooks stole after they had gone through a Postal Service distribution center. The bad guys cashed 10 of them, reported a June 13, 2023, Associated Press article. The checks were stolen in March, […]

Economists predict that the end of the student loan repayment moratorium will have little to no effect on the overall economy. They are probably right. That misses considering the ill effects on individual student-loan borrowers. Adding back a student loan payment on top of other household bills such as credit cards and car loans for […]

Why do companies lay people off and who gets the axe when they do? Knowing that can help determine the better or most qualified applicant. Companies lay off employees for any number of reasons, but most often it has to do with the cost of employees. Company officials may word it different ways, but layoffs […]