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01/08/2025

司法部告六家房地产公司，指控身为房东却用多种方法串通，让民众负担高价房租。

司法部对六家大型房地产公司提告，指控身为房东的地产公司彼此串通，利用算法订定价格、私下分享敏感消息给竞争对手，赚取更多租金利润，让民众负担高价房租。

美国租屋族持续面临房租的压力，薪水增加赶不上房租调涨。根据最新统计，2022年当中，租屋族约有半数的30%收入用来缴房租与水电费，比率创下历年新高。

司法部与包括北卡罗来纳州、田纳西州、科罗拉多州、加州等十州，对六家房地产公司联合提告，指控业者彼此勾结串通，导致住在43州与华府特区、共计130万名租屋民众房租变贵。

被告之一葛瑞斯塔房地产股份有限公司 (Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC) 在网站发布声明表示：「葛瑞斯塔向来以最高诚信经营事业，从来不曾参与任何反竞争手段。」声明指出，将在诉讼中极力证明清白。

司法部指出，被告之间通过电子邮件、电话或群组聊天彼此分享房租、租屋率等敏感消息给竞争对手，消息内容包括房租续约比率、演算公式建议的房租价格获得采纳几率如何、例如「一个月免房租」等优惠活动的促销成果，以及下一季房租价格如何订定。

司法部表示，六家被告房地产公司之一，已有一家同意与检察官合作。根据司法部提出的和解协议草案，未来房地产公司订定房租价格时，不得继续使用竞争对手的数据数据与算法。

司法部主管反托拉斯 (antitrust) 事务的代理助理部长米基 (Doha Mekki) 7日在记者会上说，针对软件公司RealPage 与六家房地产公司的提告，目的在于终止这些业者把营利摆在客户之上的手段，并让全国各地数百万民众租屋时能得到更加实惠的房租。RealPage 软件提供建议房租的演算公式。

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For Rent ($4,300/month): 279 Terrie Dr, Sterling, VA 20165

279 Terrie Dr, Sterling, VA 20165

MLS# VALO2085672

Total Finished SQFT: 2,576

Date Available: 12/30/2024

Rent: $4,300/month

PARKLIKE SETTING!! FABULOUS EXPANDED CALVERT MODEL WITH UPPER LEVEL BUMP OUT & SUNROOM ON PRIVATE LOT BACKING TO TREED COMMON AREA. LARGE MBR SUITE. CONVENIENT 2ND FLOOR LAUNDRY. ISLAND KITCHEN HAS RECESSED LIGHTING, DOUBLE PANTRY, DESK, & BAY WINDOW. SUNROOM HAS SKYLIGHTS & VAULTED CEILING. FAMILY RM W/ FPL. CUSTOM DECK. NEW ROOF, WINDOWS, PADIO DOOR AND SLIDING DOORS. BRAND NEW WASHER, DISH WASHER, REFRIGERATOR, DISPOSER. NEW CARPET ON MAIN LEVEL. MOVE IN READY.

Please text the agent at 703-395-5406 for showings.

For the MLS listing, please visit;

https://matrix.brightmls.com/Matrix/Public/Portal.aspx?ID=DE-72477875433&agt=1

Instructions for showing

Showing Method: In-Person Only

Please text the agent at 703-395-5406 for showings.

Directions: RTE 7 W, R PALISADE PKWY, 1ST LEFT RTE 777 TRIPLESEVEN RD, R REGINA, R HAWKINS, R TERRIE TO #279.

Flat-Fee MLS Listing Service in Northern VA

**Neighborhood Specialist (McLean, Falls Church, Vienna)** |
**Helping For Sale by Owner & For Rent by Owner**

DIY Landlord – Renting out Properties Safer and Quicker!

By David Chen

12/07/2024

Q. We purchased our first home some years ago, and are about to move to another home. We are considering to keep our first home as an income property. We heard of the free ads on CRAIGSLIST and zillow.com, but some landlord friends told us it could be a challenge to find qualified tenants through CRAIGSLIST and zillow.com. Is there any way to rent our property out quicker and safer with minimum cost? We are the kind of persons who would like to try things ourselves, and have some spare time.

A. You may have already done the initial research and have figured out the range of monthly rent of your property.

If the monthly rent is low such as $2000.00 or below, you may want to do it through CRAIGSLIST, https://postlets.com/, zillow.com, or similar web sites. The renters interested in the low-priced rentals may not go to the Realtors community for assistance.

If the monthly rent is $2000.00 or above, you may want to consider listing your rental on brightmls.com for the Realtors community to market it for you.

Bright MLS is made up of nine forward thinking MLSs (43 Associations) in the Mid-Atlantic region who put aside their differences and came together with a shared vision to help solve MLS market overlap and empower everyone to get more out of the MLS. Bright will serve parts of 6 states plus Washington, D.C. encompassing 85,000 real estate professionals who serve over 20 million consumers and facilitate approximately 250,000 transactions a year that are valued at more than $70 billion.

Dozens of public real estate websites (such as: zillow.com, redfin.com, brightmlshomes.com, etc.) pull data from brightmls.com through syndication. In a few hours, your listing will show up on dozens of websites and will get the maximum exposure. It is a lot quicker and safer finding qualified tenants than doing it through CRAIGSLIST and zillow.com. You may talk with a Realtor for assistance. Please be aware some Realtors take rental jobs, some don’t.

Over the years I have helped some landlords in the community renting their properties out with very low cost. A popular arrangement is to help the landlords ‘DIY’, which has been working well for those experienced landlords.

The good side of ‘DIY’ is that the landlords can ‘screen’ the potential tenants from the very beginning, have 100% control of the whole process, and enjoy the feeling of “on top of things”.

If you prefer minimum service, I can help you ‘DIY’:

1. I provide CMA, list your rental on brightmls.com, put a realtor’s lockbox at the front door if needed, provide the access log (if needed), support you through the whole process.

I charge a flat fee for the minimum service.

2. If you would like me to prepare the lease or review the lease, there is another reasonable flat fee. This service is optional.

3. You answer phone calls, work with the tenant (if the tenant doesn’t have an agent) or the tenant’s agent, run credit check, verify employment, check references, etc.. You pay the tenant’s agent (if there is one) directly on the move-in date – usually 25% of first-month rent.

If you need full-service, the commission is first-month rent – which includes the commission to be paid to the tenant’s agent.

If you need any customized service (between minimum service and full-service), we can work out an agreement.

Some information:

CMA stands for Comparable (some called Competitive) Market Analysis, that will help you determine the market value of your property for sale or for rent.

I use Sentry-key lockbox. Any Realtor with membership of NVAR (Northern Virginia Association of Realtors) or any other VA Realtors association can access and show the property.

The access log tells when the agents enter the property and their contact info. which can help you follow up with the agents.

If you like the DIY experience, I would recommend you to use the minimum service.

Please feel free to reach me if you need any assistance.
—
David Chen
Realtor (Licensed in VA) | Neighborhood Specialist (McLean, Falls Church, Vienna)
Libra Realty, LLC
dchenj@gmail.com
703-395-5406

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Last update: 12/07/2024

Websites that will show your flat fee mls listings

3/05/2024

Almost all real estate websites that offer the ability to search brokerage listings use a data feed from the MLS called Internet Data Exchange (IDX) to pull in listing data. Depending on the number of sites tapping into your MLS, your listing could appear on hundreds of websites. We do not control the content of any of the websites listed below. updated periodically & subject to change at any time Here are some examples of national websites by area that pull listings from the MLS: