I wholeheartedly promise that nobody is checking for your six-year-old Swiffer Wet Jet that you just plopped on the side of the road next to the off-putting beige chair with three missing legs. Look me in the eyes: We are not interested. The season has commenced: summertime is over and there are 33 couches lined […]
Renting in Iowa City
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Every summer, lease gaps leave Iowa City renters scrambling for housing and storage
Paul Holdefer faced a worrying prospect. The University of Iowa graduate research assistant’s lease was set to expire July 25, a week before his new one began. He tried to negotiate a longer stay in his original apartment, “just to not be unhoused with all my stuff and my partner,” he said, “even offering to […]
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Judge orders Apartments Downtown to pay millions in death of worker
The manager of Apartments Downtown, Inc., Iowa City’s biggest apartment rental companies, was ordered to $5.6 million on Tuesday, after a jury found him responsible for the death of a one of the company’s maintenance workers in 2016.
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Why are tenants in Johnson County the most cost-burdened in Iowa?
For many in Iowa City, just making the rent is a struggle. Approximately 30 percent of the population in Iowa City was living below poverty level from 2008 to…
