It never fails to amaze me how some agreements of purchase and sale continue to use creative language to describe illegal basement apartments. Over the years, I have seen purchase agreements using ...

Basement apartments provide affordable housing options in crowded urban hubs like New York City, where the average rent for a Manhattan apartment is $4,140, according to RENTCafé data. But far too ...

There are some things essential to consider before heading over to Home Depot and getting started. Dan Close, founder and CEO of We Buy Houses in Kentucky, says, "The first thing to determine is ...

In an office building in downtown Manhattan, an 8-foot-long banner stretched across the length of a fluorescent-lit hallway. Five-inch-tall red letters indicated the location of an entrance to a ...

DC rowhouses are expensive. Fortunately, many come with English basements—lower levels with separate entrances that can potentially be rented as apartments and used to offset the house’s mortgage. But ...

Marlene Hernandez moved from her two-bedroom apartment in Bushwick to an illegal basement apartment in East New York two years ago out of necessity. “I simply couldn’t afford Bushwick anymore, I had ...