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FORT WORTH, Texas — On the morning of April 8, landlord Margarita Palacios went before a Tarrant County, Texas, judge via Zoom and tried to explain why she wanted to evict a tenant who owed $4,350 in back rent.

Palacios, representing The Palace apartments, began to explain, “We sent her links to rental assistance programs and offered to ...Read more

It may seem like the search for affordable housing is as elusive as a COVID-19 vaccination appointment — a long, arduous process that often includes a waitlist.

For Jeanette Freeman, 24, moving from her family’s South Side dwelling to live on her own in a one-bedroom apartment took her all of a year — from launching the search to ...Read more

In Southern California, where home buyers are seasoned bidding-war combatants, demand lately has been pummeling supply so badly that some neighborhoods are seeing most homes fetch far more than owners were asking.

The six-county region's median home price hit an all-time high in February of $619,750, according to the most recent data from real ...Read more

Q: My HOA recently sent me a letter to “stop hanging my flags” in front of my home. I had three flags because my father and my father-in-law are both U.S. Marines. The letter stated that I may hang an American flag, but I must submit a request. I was given 10 days before they would fine me. I took them down, including the American flag. ...Read more

April 15 is a day on the calendar that can come — and go — in 2021 for many taxpayers, but not all.

This tax season, the traditional federal income tax deadline for individual returns shifts from April 15 until May 17. Ditto for most state income tax deadlines (some fall even later).

Of course, the extension for filing a return — granted...Read more

The sale last month of a digital piece of art for a near-record price raises new questions about a technology that the financial sector sees as offering great opportunity.

Christie’s auctioned the artwork for $69 million and recorded the transaction on a public blockchain as a “non-fungible token,” or NFT. The digital collage ...Read more

Witnesses urged senators to bake provisions to ensure equity into President Joe Biden’s proposed infrastructure package or they would risk repeating a history of public investments that locked African Americans and minorities out of buying homes and building wealth.

Federal policies, including provisions of the New Deal and a 1950s law to ...Read more

Roughly 8.8% of households in metro Detroit haven't taken what financial experts call the first step toward economic inclusion.

They don't have bank accounts. And it's costing them big money to cash checks and borrow money outside the traditional banking system.

Need to cash your stimulus check?

Call a local party store or check cashing store...Read more

About half of Americans surveyed by the Aegon Center for Longevity said they worry about running out of money in their later years.

If that includes you, it’s time to take a deep breath and with an open mind consider buying an annuity. Not any annuity. We’re in agreement there are plenty of sketchy folks pushing way too expensive and ...Read more

The latest version of the global World Happiness Report, which is based on Gallup surveys that ask regular people in more than 90 countries to weigh in on various “life evaluation” measures, ranked the United States as the 19th happiest country in 2020.

Americans stuck on a lower happiness rung

A key component of the overall score asked ...Read more

Q: Many people in your family have received the coronavirus vaccine, but there are a few who haven’t yet. When planning a get-together, should you invite only those who are vaccinated?

A: Rather than create divisions within the family by inviting some members and not others, a better strategy is to consider how everyone can meet as safely ...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A new law being considered by Gov. Ralph Northam would set up a retirement savings plan for private-sector workers whose employers don’t give them one.

The so-called VirginiaSaves program would allow Virginia to offer IRA accounts to people with no other options to save for retirement. The bill lets the state take a no...Read more

What if your walls could talk? What would they say about you? Would they be a dead giveaway of the last time you decorated your home? There are all sorts of ways to update a home or give a much-needed makeover. Sometimes we live with wall color or wall technique that immediately reveal when a room was last designed, because it was a marked trend...Read more

New York City dwellers fled to the safety of Connecticut’s countryside as the pandemic took a mighty toll, sending home sales market in Litchfield County into the stratosphere and turning what for a century was a weekend getaway into a permanent address.

But now, as coronavirus vaccinations accelerate and restrictions start to ease, will the ...Read more

Q: Our condo does not allow us to own pickup trucks or park them on the premises. Visitors can park them in guest parking during the day but must find off-site parking overnight. This rule is making it hard for friends and relatives to visit me. Is there something I can do? — Rick

A: When you purchased your apartment, you agreed to live by ...Read more