What’s happening? Gentrification is happening or Redevelopment is happening. However you phrase it long time, legacy homeowners, can find their property taxes a burden as their property values soar. Why is this important? Atlanta’s Mayor issued an Administrative Order for the Anti-Displacement Program that creates a $10M grant program to keep legacy home owners in […]
Monthly Archives: December 2021
Copy rights and Recipes
What’s happening? Recipes are generally not copyright-able. Then food industry starlet comes up with a recipe that gets duplicated and put on magazines, and the questions about copyrights re-emerges or parts of a cookbook, including personal stories, get copied and added to a new cookbook by another author. Why is this important? As a cook […]
Pandemic Social Justice Effect. Property Name Changes.
What’s happening? The Department of the Interior is renaming properties that have derogatory and offensive names. In the Interior Secretary’s Order, she created the Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names Why is this important? In the announcement, the Department of Interior, noted a new task force that will identify and remove derogatory terms used […]
Real Estate. Banning Love Letters to Sellers.
What’s happening? OR passed a law that prohibits real estate agents from including love letters from prospective buyers with their offer to sellers. Why is this important? A law suit says the law infringes on the free speech of buyers who should be able to share their passion and story with a seller. The goal […]