Due to challenges in the housing market, many landlords have been willing to finance the sale of their property to their tenants who don’t qualify for conventional loans. In addition to the cautions of seller financing from the Dodd-Frank Act (refer … [Read more...]

In April 2017, a U.S. District Court Judge in Denver ruled for the first time that the federal Fair Housing Act (“FHA”) prohibiting discrimination in housing extends to the LGBT community. In Smith v. Avanti, 16-CV-00091-RM-MJW, two women, one of … [Read more...]

Remember the 2016 controversial Arizona Proposition 206? It mandated that the minimum wage in Arizona went to $10/hour on January 1, 2017 and will increase by 50¢ annually until it reaches $12/hour on January 1, 2020. The other key component of this … [Read more...]

Zillow, with its easy to use, online, proprietary formula for a property’s estimated market value -- a “Zestimate” – is being sued in Cook County, Illinois for misrepresenting property values and negatively affecting sales. Real estate agents around … [Read more...]

The new rules were/are to apply to employees - not business owners or independent contractors (see http://tucsonazrealestateattorneys.com/spring-newsletter-2016.pdf  for an analysis of employees versus independent contractors and … [Read more...]