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Rental Report: What is Fair Housing and How Does It Affect Me? 10/16/2014 02:15pm • 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. At some point NY AG: Most NYC Airbnb listings violate the law 10/16/2014 12:20pm • KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly three-quarters of the New York City listings offered by the short-term rental service Airbnb violate city or state laws, New York state's attorney general charged Thursday.A report released Thursday by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman also ch New US Ebola case a nurse who treated man in Texas 10/16/2014 01:20am • MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- A dated yearbook picture of a smiling young woman has become the latest face of Ebola in the U.S.The high school picture of Amber Vinson spread across the country after the 29-year-old nurse was confirmed with the virus Wednesday. But little was publicly Dream beach house built on wrong lot 10/15/2014 01:30pm • HAMMOCK DUNES, Fla. (AP) -- A dream beach house in Florida has turned into a nightmare for a Missouri couple.Six months after the custom house was built along the Atlantic Ocean near Palm Coast, Mark and Brenda Voss learned it's on the wrong lot in the gated Ocean Hammock community.Mark Voss tells t Ask Adam: Condos Limiting Rental Units 10/14/2014 12:30pm • This regularly-scheduled sponsored Q&A column is written by Adam Gallegos of Arlington-based real estate firm Arbour Realty, voted one of Arlington Magazine’s Best Realtors of 2013 & 2014. Please submit your questions via email. Q. My condo is considering a limit on the nu Wall Street slide ... New head of J.C. Penney ... US-British bank exercise 10/13/2014 06:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- It was a harrowing day on Wall Street today as the stock market simply could not shake off the jitters from last week. The market closed sharply lower again, as airlines, energy and materials stocks were among the biggest losers. The market was coming off its biggest weekly decline Missing California woman discovered in Maine shack 10/13/2014 10:46am • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An elderly Los Angeles woman believed to have died was found years later in a rundown shack in Maine, where an unrelated family took her after gaining her confidence and selling her house, authorities said.Sarah Cheiker disappeared in 2008 at age 89 and was found in 2012 -- alive 5 reasons your credit score is more important than your GPA 10/13/2014 12:00am • If you're a college student, you're probably working hard to keep your grade-point average looking sharp. After all, your GPA could be your ticket to graduate school, a competitive internship or maybe even your dream job. But if you're hitting the books so hard that you're ignoring another impo Missing California woman found in Maine shack 10/12/2014 07:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An elderly Los Angeles woman whose neighbors believed had died was instead found in a rundown shack in Maine, where according to authorities an unrelated family took her after gaining her confidence and selling her house.The Los Angeles Times reported (http://lat.ms/1wkHNvl ) Sun Morning Notes 10/10/2014 09:05am • Average Apartment Rents, By Metro Stop – The average one-bedroom apartment near the Bethesda Metro stop will run you $2,193 a month, according to an apartment rental app. That’s expensive compared to apartments near other suburban Metro stations, but cheaper than a number of D.C.&# Woman with cancer plans to take her life in Oregon 10/09/2014 01:47pm • STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Brittany Maynard will not live to see if her advocacy makes a difference.The 29-year-old woman expects to die next month. If the brain cancer from which she suffers does not kill her in October, she plans to take advantage of Oregon's Death with San Francisco lawmakers OK Airbnb rentals 10/09/2014 12:58pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco lawmakers have tentatively approved a measure that would allow city residents to rent out their homes to travelers on sites such as Airbnb.The Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 on Tuesday in favor of short-term rentals with some restrictions, including a cap on the n Most expensive Metro stops for apartment rents 10/09/2014 10:32am • Proximity to Metro is coveted by apartment renters and they often pay a premium for that close-by access. Apartment rental app RadPad crunched the numbers to see which Washington-area Metro stops command the highest apartment rents, and Foggy Bottom tops the list, with the average rent in September How to Prepare for a Mini-Retirement 10/09/2014 12:00am • Saving for retirement is very difficult when you're young because retirement is so far off. I certainly didn't want to save for retirement when I was 21 years old. Retirement was 40 to 50 years away at that point, and the timeline was too long to contemplate. However, my dad convinced me to start c How to Raise Your Credit Score to Get Approved for an Apartment 10/08/2014 12:00am • When you apply for a new rental, your credit score can have a big impact on whether or not you'll beat out the competition and land the apartment. In fact, a recent Rent.com survey of property owners and managers found that after income-to-rent ratio, a potential tenant's credit score was the secon