News: In the news
Filter
Renting out properties as vacation homes can make plenty of money for owners.
An article by the Orange County Register tells the lucrative tale of real estate broker Barbara O’Hara Hamilton.
Hamilton rents out a duplex in the Newport Beach area on a weekly basis, the article says, and can rake in nearly $7,000 monthly — roughly four times the monthly income when the unit rented annually.
The article also offers tips on preparing a unit for vacation rental, from getting the proper license to stocking the shelves.
Tagged: In the news Orange County
An audit to test whether landlords are abiding by fair housing laws shows a decline in discrimination but room for improvement in customer service.
The 2011-2012 audit by ECHO Housing involved Latinos and non-Latinos calling landlords in several East Bay cities, according to this article in The Alamedan.
The idea: To see whether callers with certain accents got calls back from landlords.
“The 2011-2012 national origin audit testing represented the lowest amount of discrimination in ECHO’s history of conducting audits,” the 12-page audit said, according to The Alamedan.
While the “tester’s” accents had little influence over whether landlords called people… Read More
Tagged: In the news