White House unveils new tenant protections amid soaring rental costs

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19. I don't think the issues are so much with the individual single-family landlords

but often with the large corporate multi-family apartment owners who have swooped into many municipalities and bought up multiple complexes. They end up doing some rudimentary "curb appeal" (landscaping) fixes and then sell to the next corporate buyer at a profit, raising the rents in the process.

I know one of the apartment buildings that I had lived in for years before moving to where I am now, was literally changing hands every 3 - 4 years. Each of these new owners brought in their own contracted property management staff who were hit or miss with respect to customer service. And as things devolved (heating systems went, roofs needed repair, plumbing was subpar), the owners sell, and away that team goes to be replaced by a new group.

So there are many types of practices that could use some regulation/tweaking to stabilize the marketplace and reduce the churn that basically boils down to the continual "flipping of apartment properties" (just like you see people flipping homes).