FBI Raids Corporate Landlord in Major Rent Price-Fixing Probe: What It Means for You - Uprise RI
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The FBI's recent raid on Cortland Management reveals a nationwide conspiracy to inflate rents, potentially impacting millions of renters, including those in Rhode Island. Discover how RealPage's software allegedly manipulates rental markets and what this could mean for your rent.

Probably going to see a few more cases like these with some of the other large corporate landlords. If Biden had any political sense he’d campaign on the fact that his dept of justice is cracking down on corporate landlords whose greed presents direct material problems in people’s everyday lives but he won’t for some unknowable reason.

    • Pastaguini [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      True, makes you think that whatever was happening here had to be a pretty flagrant and unignorable violation. I have a friend who works as a tenants rights lawyer and asked their opinion, and they responded with a “they fucked up bad.”