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<title>Owner Best Practices Conference Call: Cost Effective Bed Bug Treatment</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:19:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NAA's Independent Rental Owner Committee (IROC) will host a best practices web conference call on Wednesday, May 16.

The primary topic discussed on the call will be a follow-up to the IRO best practices]]></description>
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<title>Booming N.D. Oil Town Becomes Hot Apartment Market</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:13:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A booming local oil market is having both positive and negative ramifications for Williston, N.D. The town is growing so fast that it is having a hard time meeting basic social needs such as housing and even trash pickup. In 2006-07, the school enrollment was]]></description>
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<title>Shadow Inventory: 46 Months to Clear Distressed Housing Supply</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:10:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[According to estimates from Standard & Poor's Rating Services, it will take at least 46 months to clear the market's supply of distressed homes, or the shadow]]></description>
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<title>EPA Warns Against New R-22 Refrigerant Alternatives</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 07:22:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the market disruptions provoked by EPAâ€™s preliminary notice regarding importation and production quotas for the refrigerant R-22, property owners and managers have looked for alternative refrigerants to keep their systems operating. While R-22 production will ultimately be]]></description>
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<title>Petition for Rehearing in Farmer&acirc;€™s Branch Immigration Case</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 07:11:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On March 22, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Farmers Branch, Texas, housing ordinance requiring citizenship or lawful immigration status as a precondition to renting housing as unconstitutional. After examining the ordinance, the appellate court concluded its sole purpose was not to regulate housing, but to exclude undocumented aliens, specifically Latinos, from the city, which the court concluded is an impermissible regulation of immigration. Specifically, the court ruled the]]></description>
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<title>Bed Bugs The Landlord and The Tenant</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 05:11:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bed bugs remain a problem for the housing industry and, as a result, several state legislatures are considering regulating the responsibilities of owners and managers in the event of an infestation.  Last year, bills addressing the issue died in New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania. This year, Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Massachussetts, Missouri and New Jersey have entertained legislation. Currently, Arizona, Maine and New York City prescribe rules for landlords. 

State and federal courts (diversity jurisdiction) have addressed the liability of landlords to tenants]]></description>
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