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Disrupting The Security Deposit With Insurance

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On average apartment rent rates have gone up about 36 percent in the last decade according to retail data firm Yardi Matrix , and in particularly desirable marketplaces like Denver, Austin and Seattle rents have gone up by more than 70 percent. The average security deposit in the U.S. But in the U.S.,

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Outside The Box (And Inside The Storage Container) Solutions To Sky-High Rent

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Tom George, a Wichita-based developer, heard the joke and may have thought to himself: “What if the box weren’t cardboard?”. The standard joke among those looking for housing in an expensive city is that they can barely find space in a cardboard box to rent within their price range.

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Stranger Summer Payments Things

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But if it is just too hot to read all of that data, a quick trip through the last seven days of retail news will prove that hot weather puts people on edge, makes them angry, dampens their reasoning ability – and leads to some truly spectacular choices. Particularly in Walmart, for some reason….

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