Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Missouri law prohibits cities from enacting rent control provisions. “These are crises that can be controlled, but the legislature won’t allow it,” a housing advocate said.
The firm's attorneys focus on health care, finance, real estate, technology, private equity and life sciences. Polsinelli was founded in 1972 by Jim Polsinelli and two other young attorneys [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in a small office to serve business and real estate clients in the historic Country Club District in Kansas City, Missouri.
Unscrupulous landlords could conceal defects and, if the tenant complains, threaten to raise the rent at the end of the lease. With rent control, tenants can request that hidden defects, if they exist, be repaired to comply with building code requirements, without fearing retaliatory rent increases. Rent control could thus compensate somewhat ...
The union's members in Kansas City, Missouri and Independence, Missouri voted to take the action after failed negotiations with their landlords and Fannie Mae. Tenants of Independence Towers and Quality Hill Towers—the two apartment complexes involved with the dispute—have complained about poor living conditions, with maintenance reports ...
Shook, Hardy & Bacon (SHB), L.L.P. (previously Shook, Hardy, Ottman, Mitchell and Bacon) is a U.S. law firm based in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2012, The National Law Journal ranked the firm as the 87th largest in the United States. [4] The firm has offices in Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Boston. [5] The firm is notable for its ...
Under the common law, real estate can be jointly owned at a given time. [16] In most states, in a tenancy in common, co-tenants each have a theoretical right to possess the whole property. [16] Co-tenants must also share rents received from third-parties, as well as upkeep expenses and taxes. [16]
KC Tenants was founded with an annual budget of $30,000, which has grown to almost $600,000 in June 2023. [1] The union has worked together with Mayor Quinton Lucas on housing policy, [3] notably passing a tenant's bill of rights in 2019 that included banning "discrimination against prospective tenants solely because of a prior arrest, conviction or eviction."
A Missouri law that declares certain federal gun restrictions invalid is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court ruled Monday – the second time a federal court has struck down the sweeping state ...