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After Target: Major data breach at retailer Michaels 04/18/2014 07:35am • And next with the data breach: Michaels Stores Inc. The Texas-based arts-and-crafts chain, the largest in the nation, announced Thursday the personal information of some 3 million customers may have been stolen between June 26, 2013 and Feb. 27, 2014. You read those dates correctly. That's more bad Rental Report: Tips for Apartment Hunting With a Roommate 04/17/2014 02:30pm • Editor’s Note: This biweekly sponsored column is written by Rick Gersten, founder and CEO of Urban Igloo, a rental real estate firm that matches up renters with their ideal apartments, condos or houses. Please submit any questions in the comments section or via email. Now that D.C. among most expensive rental markets 04/16/2014 04:20pm • WASHINGTON - As Americans spend more of their paychecks on rent, it's becoming more difficult to make ends meet. Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan is calling it "the worst rental affordability crisis that this country has ever known." More than 40 million people rented their residence in 2012. D.C. rents among fastest rising in the nation 04/15/2014 10:31am • Residential rental expenses in D.C. rose 33 percent between 2007 and 2012, the third-fastest growth figure for apartment costs in the nation, according to personal finance site NerdWallet. NerdWallet used U.S. Census survey data to determine median rents as defined by monthly out-of-pocket Friendship Place 04/11/2014 09:54am • Our mission is to empower individuals and families experiencing or at risk of homelessness to rebuild their lives, with the involvement of the community. We do this through our three programs: Direct Housing, Veterans First and AimHire Direct Housing provides temporary rental assistance - first m Morning Notes 04/11/2014 09:45am • Advice for Vihstadt — Dave Foster, a Republican elected to two full terms on the Arlington School Board starting in 1999, has some advice for the newly-elected County Board member John Vihstadt. In order for Vihstadt to win re-election and a full term in November, he will need to practice &#8 Thanks To Our Advertisers 04/11/2014 05:00am • We’d like to send out a big thank you to our BethesdaNow.com advertisers. Chevy Chase Center – Check out the trunk show coming up next week at Chevy Chase Center’s Gals on and off the Green. Montgomery County Renters Alliance – See what the local nonprofit is up to. Dansez!Dansez! Hopes To Find Permanent Home On Rugby Avenue 04/10/2014 09:10am • It’s been a bit of a frenzied two years for Dansez!Dansez! owner Sabine Philippe. The dance studio was forced out of its Fairmont Avenue location in February 2012 because of structural damage to its building caused by next door construction. Philippe scrambled to find a nearby space at 8020 No Tough Temple CrossFit Coming To Rugby Avenue 04/08/2014 11:45am • John Weeks and his partners saw a lot more potential than most in an old warehouse in Woodmont Triangle. The former Allied Rental space at 4907 Rugby Ave. will give Weeks a unique amount of space to start his Tough Temple CrossFit studio. Spread over the gym’s 4,800 square feet will be a Rental Report: Tenant Screening Tips 04/08/2014 10:25am • Editor’s Note: This biweekly sponsored column is written by Rick Gersten, founder and CEO of Urban Igloo, a rental real estate firm that matches up renters with their ideal apartments, condos or houses. Please submit any questions in the comments section or via email. If you ar Crime Report: Attempted Rape in Buckingham 04/04/2014 01:00pm • Arlington police have arrested a man and charged him with attempting to rape a woman in Buckingham last Friday afternoon. Police say Hector Lopez Aguilar, 33, forced his way into an apartment on the 4200 block of N. Pershing Drive and tried to rape a 54-year-old woman. He allegedly fled the scene wh Rental Report: Tenant Screening Tips 04/03/2014 02:30pm • Editor’s Note: This biweekly sponsored column is written by Rick Gersten, founder and CEO of Urban Igloo, a rental real estate firm that matches up renters with their ideal apartments, condos or houses. Please submit any questions in the comments section or via email. If you ar Morning Notes 04/02/2014 09:00am • Torrez Murder Trial Begins — The murder trial of Jorge Torrez, the ex-Marine accused of killing Navy petty officer Amanda Jean Snell on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, has gotten underway. Torrez is already serving multiple life sentences after being convicted in Arlington of rape and numerou Turning your home into a rental is not always a fast money maker 03/30/2014 01:22pm • Ron Sitrin, Long & Foster Rental Report: Buy, Rent or Rent To Own? 03/25/2014 11:50am • Editor’s Note: This biweekly sponsored column is written by Rick Gersten, founder and CEO of Urban Igloo, a rental real estate firm that matches up renters with their ideal apartments, condos or houses. Please submit any questions in the comments section or via email. Unlike ma