
A Landlord Yanked $1.7 Million Out of His Buildings and Left Tenants in Sewage. The City Didn't Stop Him. The Tenants Did.
Kansas City finally suspended Yisroel Levovitz's rental license at North Lawn. It took standing sewage, a month with no AC in a heat wave, a refugee-led tenant union, and two lawsuits to get there. I have sold a lot of houses in this town, and I have also watched what happens to the people who canno

While Everyone is Clapping for Steady Mortgage Rates Your Neighbors are Losing their Home.
Foreclosures just hit a six-year high and while everyone claps for a steady mortgage rate the federal lifeline expires right on cue. Let me tell you what happens every Thursday morning. Freddie Mac drops its rate report, the headlines yawn "rates hold steady," a bunch of talking heads nod like every

Everybody's Cheering the Data Centers. Nobody's Building the Beds.
Kansas City keeps landing billion-dollar server farms and battery plants but where are the workers supposed to live? Somebody has to say the quiet part out loud, so apparently that's my job now. We are throwing a parade for every mega-project that plants a flag in the metro, and not one person at th





