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ACRE Goes to Court On First Rental Registration Ordinance and Prepares to Fight More
Last week, ACRE joined the fight with the Apartment Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, The Landlord Services Bureau, The Realtors’ Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, our state association, The Pennsylvania Residential Owners’ Association, and our...
ACRE Courses Qualify for National Professional Housing Provider Program
The National Real Estate Investors’ Association (National REIA) has started a nationwide education-based certification program designed to recognize the high level of knowledge and professionalism attained by those real estate investors who attend the programs...
A Matter of Trust
Conventions are great! We have so many national experts with incredible information and motivational presentations. I take ideas from every speaker I listen to, and incorporate them in my real estate investing and the advice I give to my clients. I’ve heard...
Pennsylvania’s New Wage Attachment Rules
On December 21, 2005, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its Civil Procedural Rules, Order No. 446, Promulgating the Rules of Civil Procedure governing the attachment of wages. The order of the court was effective January 21, 2006, and finally enacted the...
Pennsylvania Passes Conservatorship Act for Blighted Property
At law, a conservator is usually the officer appointed by a court to preserve, maintain or repair the property of a minor, or of one who is incompetent. A guardian of a child who has lost his parents is a conservator. Conservators can also be appointed by the...
Allegheny County to Implement New Foreclosure Procedures
As the financial crisis has deepened, and more homeowners have faced foreclosure, the federal government is not the only place where changes are being made to bring some relief to overwhelmed homeowners. State courts are the places where the foreclosure actions...
Gas and Oil in Western PA
Recently, as natural gas and oil prices have continued to climb, and concerns over energy independence grow ever larger, Pennsylvania, and particularly Western Pennsylvania, has become the new hotbed of energy speculation in the U.S. This should not be...
Congress Raises FHA Borrower Cash Requirements
On July 31, 2008, changes to Paragraph (9) of section 203(b) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(b)(9)) went into effect. In short, the amendments lay out cash investment requirements for buyers, and what sources of such buyers’ funds are permitted in...
Bankruptcy and Evictions- In Re Alberts
Landlords already know how the challenge of evicting a tenant who files for Bankruptcy protection during the eviction process, especially a tenant who knows how to play the system. After the decision of Judge Deller in the recent Beaver County case, In Re...