The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is reportedly planning to sue Greystar Real Estate Partners, the largest apartment landlord in the U.S., for allegedly charging tenants millions of dollars worth of hidden mandatory fees.The fees ranged from tens to hundreds of dollars per month per tenant, added on top of rent, according to a Bloomberg report. They were related to services like pest control, trash removal, and tenant background checks.According to Bloomberg, the FTC is expected to allege that Greystar falsely advertised rental prices without these fees, and only told renters about them after they filled out an inquiry form, paid…
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“You’ve achieved 40 seconds of uninterrupted focus.” Apparently, this is cause for celebration. For the past 10 minutes, I have been staring at my phone, trying to move a digital ball up a hill using nothing but the power of my mind. The Mendi headset I am wearing is analysing my brain activity and reflecting that back into the game. The more I concentrate, the higher the ball climbs. This exercise is supposedly working out my mental muscle, just as one might use weights to train physical muscle, ultimately improving my focus and reducing my stress. Like thousands of others,…
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, got into a heated exchange at a House hearing Tuesday that culminated with Mace challenging Crockett by asking whether she wanted to “take it outside.”The war of words came during a discussion of civil rights and transgender rights, with Crockett calling for re-establishing a subcommittee on civil rights and criticizing Mace’s rhetoric about transgender people.“I can see that somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now. So [Mace] is gonna keep saying ‘trans, trans, trans, trans’ so that people will feel threatened, and child, listen —” Crockett said.“I am no child,…
Manimatana Lee spent the past five years building one of the hottest commodities on the internet: a group of people who reliably watch her videos on TikTok.She built an audience of nearly 10,000 followers with videos of herself vacuuming her house in Wisconsin while her youngest daughter napped in a carrier on her back. A video of Ms. Lee dancing and doing the dishes — while wearing her sleeping baby — has been watched more than one million times since November.Now, with the Supreme Court soon to rule in a case that could determine whether TikTok could be banned in…
The two positions in life that require ZERO experience are (1) politician and (2) becoming a parent. We often hear blaming foreign buyers in real estate for the rise in prices. I listened to that in Miami, with all the foreigners buying condos, but I also heard in Florida how all these people from New England were buying up the East Coast, and the MidWesterners were buying the West Coast. In Canada, they blamed the Chinese for pushing up property values in Vancouver. In Singapore, it was turning ugly, with even protests against foreigners. The world economy expands and flourishes…
Megyn Kelly was at the Pete Hegseth hearings on Monday and praised Pete’s performance in the face of unhinged Democrats. Kelly said that she now fully expects that Hegseth will be confirmed as Defense Secretary. She also slammed the Democrat women senators in the hearing for behaving like ‘hysterical fools’ and claimed she was embarrassed for her sex. It’s impossible to disagree with Kelly’s take here. Transcript via Real Clear Politics: MEGYN KELLY: No one laid a glove on him. He’s good. He’s got this. I have zero doubts now that he will be confirmed. Joni Ernst was the big…
Christine Brown’s daughter, Ysabel Brown, has a few confessions about her first impression of her mom’s relationship with David Woolley.The 21-year-old disclosed that she was a bit hesitant about accepting the pace of her mother’s relationship with her new husband.Christine Brown and David Woolley began their whirlwind romance in 2023, two years after she ended her 27-year marriage to Kody Brown in 2021.Article continues below advertisementChristine Brown’s Daughter Ysabel Brown Took A Moment To Accept David WoolleyIn the latest episode of “Sister Wives,” which aired on January 12, Ysabel explained that she initially thought it was too soon when David…
PARIS: A French woman who revealed on television how she had lost her life savings to scammers posing as Brad Pitt, has faced a wave of online harassment and mockery, leading the interview to be withdrawn on Tuesday (Jan 14). The woman, named as Anne, told the Seven to Eight programme on the TF1 channel that she had believed she was in a romantic relationship with the Hollywood star, leading her to divorce her husband and transfer 830,000 euros (US$850,000). The scammers used fake social media and WhatsApp accounts as well as AI image-creating technology to send Anne what appeared to…
US Securities and Exchange Commission says Musk’s failure to disclose stake allowed him to underpay $150m for shares.Elon Musk is being sued by the securities regulator in the United States for allegedly not disclosing his stake in Twitter on time before he bought the social media platform. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday that Musk failed to disclose within the required 10-day period that he acquired more than 5 percent of Twitter’s stock in March 2022. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s failure to notify regulators allowed him to keep buying shares at “artificially low prices”, the…
Most NASCAR Cup Series teams need a few seasons to become consistently competitive, much less championship contenders. Apparently 23XI Racing missed the memo. As the team enters its fifth season of Cup Series competition in 2025, it will do so with its first Championship 4 appearance under its belt. In his second season with 23XI, Tyler Reddick took the No. 45 team to the Championship 4 with a thrilling victory in Miami. Now, Reddick faces the most difficult task of his NASCAR career: taking 23XI back to the championship stage. The inherent randomness of both racing and NASCAR’s current playoff format will hinder…