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This letter urges the Massachusetts Budget Conference Committee to adopt the final Senate language, as amended, that bans the practice of requiring tenants to pay broker fees for rental units where the broker was hired by the landlord.
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To help ensure that renters can find safe, decent, and affordable housing, we urge the FTC to adopt a final rule that applies to rental housing and protects renters and rental housing applicants from hidden, misleading, and excessive fees.
The 39 organizations listed below are pleased to submit these comments in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding unfair or deceptive fees, R207011. These comments discuss the many fees, which we refer to as “junk fees,” charged to renters and rental housing applicants. The organizations urge the FTC…
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These comments discuss the many junk fees charged to tenants and rental housing applicants. We urge the CFPB to work with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate and prevent the imposition of these junk fees so that they do not end up in the hands of debt collectors, impair renters’ credit reports, and jeopardize…
Comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau re: Docket No. CFPB-2022-0003.
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