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For almost 10 years now, experts everywhere have called for rising mortgage rates. Shortly after the financial crisis, everyone everywhere felt bad about buying anything. But as we bounced from the March 2009 lows, slowly the financial gears began...

When Lawrence and I gave our original Demo Day pitch in the Summer 2009 Y Combinator batch, we cited Craigslist as a large part of the New York City apartment finder problem. Back then, you could not sort by...

Does anyone remember ZipRealty? Back in the Dotcom 1.0 era, they were among the first widespread discount real estate brokerage companies with a reasonably strong presence in the west coast. I have fond memories of using their saved search...

Previously we talked about How Not To Die as a real estate agent. Another infamous Paul Graham term is "Default Alive or Default Dead". It sounds extremely harsh and morbid, but that's part of the point. Calling a company...

There is another StreetEasy price hike on the Zillow-owned New York City product. It was free to post a rental exclusive until August 2017, when prices jumped to $3 per day. In Jan 2019 the price jumped 50% to...

It's Valentine's Day again and love is the main focus. You probably can't wait to spend a day with your loved one. Here at RentHop, we believe that it's not only important to give someone a bit of extra...