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Hate, Hope and Swimming Lessons An American Summer With the First Syrians in Iowa Abdul Fattah Tameem and his family enjoy the pool on a hot summer day at the family's new apartment complex in West Des Moines , a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa." width="1520" height="1014" /> Abdul Fattah Tameem and his family enjoy the pool at the family’s new apartment complex in West Des Moines . By ROBIN SHULMAN | Photographs by DANNY WILCOX FRAZIER —VII for TIME Just over a year ago, Ghazweh Aljabooli and her husband and five children landed at the Des Moines airport and became the first refugees from Syria’s ongoing civil war to settle in Iowa . In their first summer in America, each step felt momentous . The first shopping trip to Walmart, the kids playing in a pool and taking the bus to school, all put the horrors of war further behind them—the years without sufficient food, the bombs that destroyed their house and ruined their city of Homs, the month they cam...

UPDATE: Officers were dispatched to the Sunset Ridge Apartment complex on the 2100 block of Koch Drive for a welfare check Tuesday night . While officers were knocking on the door they heard what they identified as a gunshot. The SWAT team was paged and responded to the apartment building . They entered the apartment and found a dead man. The incident is under further investigation and there is no danger to the public. The man's identity is not being released until he is identified and his family has been notified. There is no evidence this death is of a suspicious nature. ORIGINAL STORY: Tense moments occurred at a north Bismarck apartment building Tuesday evening . Police evacuated a building at Sunset Ridge Apartment complex on Koch Drive around 7:30 p.m. A SWAT team arrived and police sent a robot into the building. Police say they were dealing with a situation and may have been looking for someone on the first floor. ...

Blackstone Group has sold a big apartment complex in west suburban Lombard for $67.4 million, notching a solid gain about two years after buying it. The New York private equity firm sold Clover Creek , a 504-unit property at 830 Foxworth Blvd., to JRK Holdings, a Los Angeles- based investment firm , according to DuPage County property records . The price, which amounts to $134,000 a unit, is 24 percent higher than the $54. 1 million Blackstone paid for the complex in March 2015. Rising rents and occupancies have pushed up suburban apartment values the past several years, allowing investors to cash out of properties at higher prices than they paid. But that alone doesn't explain the jump at Clover Creek. BOOSTING VALUE Blackstone increased the value of the complex by renovating a bunch of its apartments. Then it raised rents on the rehabbed apartments, boosting the property's income and justifying the higher price. After fixing up 72 apartments at Clover Creek, it hiked rent...

PHOENIX - Nearly 200 residents at the Mirabella Apartment complex in Phoenix have been without water for days. That is until late Thursday night when Phoenix Fire Department spokesperson Benjamin Santillan told ABC15 the city agreed to turn the water back on for a week. The water company says the complex near the I-17 and Camelback owes them about $50,000 dollars, and until the bill is paid, the residents are stuck in the middle. "I think this is crazy. Everyone is very emotional, we don't know when this will end or if we'll have to go without water every day," said Crystal Medina who called ABC15 for help. When our crews arrived they found some fed up residents standing outside. They've been dealing with no water for two days. "It's terrible. I have to go to work, but we can't shower, we can't use the toilets, we can't even clean," said new resident Ira Savely . Savely and his roommate just moved into the apartment days ago , unaware ...

Klrcow r People are never in office, and their computer bay hasnt been working for the past month … more » People are never in office, and their computer bay hasnt been working for the past month Jamie Young Needs code or lock on both pools. There are a lot of visitors who take up the whole pool that do not live there and leave trash on the residents hallways. Not a safe place to live and office staff are … unpredictable and very difficult to get answers from. more » Needs code or lock on both pools. There are a lot of visitors who take up the whole pool that do not live there and leave trash on the residents hallways. Not a safe place to live and office staff are unpredictable and very difficult to get answers from. Leonard Morales Agreed with comment below. Upper management has done a disastrous move with its recent change. Willow Springs has fallen behind and now us tenants must pay the price and wait for everything to get re- … organized. Lock on pool has yet to be remove...

BRADENTON -- A Chicago company has paid $39.25 million for a set of 336 apartments that have only been off the market for four years. The Inland Real Estate Group 's purchase of the Sawgrass Cove Apartments on Jan. 28 is the fourth major multifamily transaction in the Bradenton area since mid December. Like several of those previous sales, the Sawgrass deal gave a short-term owner a quick gain on its investment. The seller in the transaction, Sawgrass Cove Apartments LLC of North Miami, bought the 24-year-old complex in 2011 for $23 million. Situated on about 28 acres at 4945 49th Avenue W., the complex is grouped in with several other apartment properties south of Cortez Road W. One neighboring property, the Palm Cove Apartments , sold for $31.6 million in early January. In that case, the buyer purchased 298 out of a total of 348 units in the complex, which was converted to condominiums several years ago. Other major recent apartment transactions include the $43 million sal...

Taslema Sultana walks around the grounds of one of the hotels in Cannon Beach that she now manages. Sultana recently took over management of four hotels in the area as well as other real estate properties ." /> Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Taslema Sultana walks around the grounds of one of the hotels in Cannon Beach that she now manages. Sultana recently took over management of four hotels in the area as well as other real estate properties . Buy this photo Taslema Sultana works the desk at the office of just one of the hotels she manages in Cannon Beach. Sultana, who used to be an engineer at Intel, and her husband manage several hotels in Cannon Beach and Seaside in addition to other real estate properties ." /> Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Taslema Sultana works the desk at the office of just one of the hotels she manages in Cannon Beach. Sultana, who used to be an engineer at Intel, and her husband manage several hotels in Cannon Beach and Seasid...

CLOSE A quick history of how Asheville's "RAD" went from post-industrial grittiness to tourist haven. Joel Burgess/Citizen-Times The Stoneyard Apartments are proposed for 175 Lyman St. in the River Arts District . (Photo: Form & Function Architecture)   ASHEVILLE - Approval of a proposed $19 million River Arts District apartment complex has been delayed a second time after City Council concerns about high rent prices . The 133- unit Stoneyard Apartments were slated to be reviewed at Tuesday's council meeting, but Mayor Esther Manheimer asked that the public hearing be delayed to "a date uncertain." The council unanimously approved the change with no discussion. No one from the Saluda- based AltInvest development group spoke at the meeting. On Wednesday morning Sasha Vrtunksi , with the city's planning and urban design department , said the delay happened at the request of AltInvest. Chief developer David LaFave couldn 't be reached by text...

Imagine paying a multimillion-dollar sum for an apartment you’d stay in once a month. In Bayside, that’s a reality. Jacobs Buyer Advocates director Nicole Jacobs said some buyers spending big in Bayside’s high- end apartment market might only touch base with their luxury pad for a fleeting moment. “They might stay there once a month, and spend the rest of the time down on the Peninsula,” Ms Jacobs said. Ms Jacob’s comments came as realestate.com.au showed there were just seven apartments listed across Bayside with asking prices of more than $2 million. “There’s more off-market, ranging from $3.5 million-$5 million and even higher,” Ms Jacobs said. She said it was primarily local downsizers who opened their wallets for these high-end homes. RELATED: Trophy homes by the bay draw eyes from near and far AUCTION ACTION: Auctioneer dons unicorns on his feet during sale of Highett home “They’ll sell their family home for $5 million to $6 million, and buy something luxurious they can ...