Filed under: Renting 101 Is your teeny tiny apartment full of clutter, now is time to get your decluttering groove on! September 25 will be the next Give Your Stuff Away Day, where you’ll find free stuff all over neighborhoods in American. Founder Mike Morone’s goal is to hold this “worldwide twice annually. The event [...]
With home sales declining to record lows, many homeowners who can’t sell their homes are turning to rental brokers to ease their financial burden. Instead of paying the mortgage on an empty house, they opt to rent it to help cover the mortgage until the market turns around. However, things don’t always work out as [...]
Filed under: Renting 101, Savings Experiment Renting is too often considered a stepping stone for people busy saving up for that prototypical American dream: homeownership. But what if we looked at renting as a sound investment choice, rather than a runner-up prize? There’s a new school of thought doing just that. With the disillusionment brought [...]
Filed under: Renting 101 Dear Apartment Guru, Hi! I found you on RentedSpaces.com, and thought you knew what the hell you were talking about. So I’ve got a question for you: A friend of mine has been renting a Section 8 house, and has a daughter who just turned 18 and is disabled. She moved [...]
Filed under: Renting 101 When Nora Hill was six months pregnant, she and her husband Dietrich moved out of their $650-per-month apartment and in with his parents in Atlanta. That was about a year ago. Hill, a nutritional assistant in Cobb County, Ga., and her 31-year-old husband, a supervisor at UPS, didn’t receive pay raises [...]
Filed under: Renting 101 Whether you’re saving up for your next apartment, saving toward retirement or even looking to save a little space, we have great advice for you. See what else was hot on RentedSpaces this week. Declutter Your Rental on Give Your Stuff Away Day There’s still time this week to box up [...]
Filed under: Inspiration The Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami has put the city — fourth largest in Florida’s Miami-Dade County — on the map. It’s not just because of award-winning art but the progressive impact the site has made on the city since MOCA opened in 1996. North Miami Councilman Scott Galvin, who [...]
Paying too much for rent will only bring on debt. Yet some fail to make this connection. Such a hefty rent might get paid every month, but there will be nothing left to cover gas, food, utilities. Before leasing a “financial burden,” or just getting by every paycheck, consider the benefits of figuring out an [...]
Filed under: Renting 101 How much will it cost to replace my belongings lost in a fire? That’s what might have crossed Ricki Lake’s mind right after “Thank God, we’re alive.” The Malibu rental home of the actress and former talk show host burned to a crisp this weekend after she was attempting to refuel [...]
Filed under: Inspiration There may be a growing chasm between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” but in a suburb of Charlotte, N.C. there’s a dedicated man who’s been working hard over the last six years to bridge that gap. Summer in the city is not always a fun time for those who are struggling to [...]
