This month, 61-year-old John Lee was out in the cold — or, rather, the August heat — when he was evicted from his south Charlotte rental home near the airport. Although he was behind on rent for June, which is ...

Tagged with: Greater Charlotte Apartment Association Joe Rempson Ken Szymanski North Carolina Association of Realtors North Carolina Real Estate Commission Southern Piedmont/Charlotte Better Business Bureau Tom Miller

With a glut of distressed properties slowing down the U.S. real estate market, Washington bureaucrats are considering renting out hundreds of thousands of foreclosed, government-owned homes as a last-ditch effort to help the market. On Aug. 10, the Federal Housing ...

Tagged with: Dustin Read Greater Charlotte Apartment Association Ken Szymanski

In the past year since Charlotte’s rental ordinance took effect, 643 properties have surpassed the city’s threshold for crime. That means, in theory, that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officials should have met with the owners of 643 properties, of which 553 ...

Tagged with: Andy Dulin Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Greater Charlotte Apartment Association Joe Rempson Ken Szymanski

When Mecklenburg County’s assessor’s office releases its 2011 revaluation of commercial properties in March, apartment owners may be surprised at how little their properties have increased in value since the last revaluation in 2003. Chuck Hicks, the county’s revaluation manager, ...

Tagged with: Charter Properties Chuck Hicks Greater Charlotte Apartment Association John Porter Ken Szymanski