Marlin Does Not Disclose Possible Loss Of Evergreen Payments

Many automatic renewal clauses require the tenant to give a 30-day notice before the lease expires if the tenant does not wish to renew. But the lease must meet certain requirements.Question: I was renting an apartment on a one-year lease. I made plans to move to another community and had no intention of renewing the lease. On the day I went to turn in my keys to the resident manager, she told me I could not vacate because the lease had automatically been renewed for another year. I don't remember being told about any automatic renewal clause when I signed the original lease.

Christopher Menkin submits:While the Marlin Business Service (MRLN) Securities Exchange Commission 8K filing is not as complete as a year-end filing, it certainly shows a rem

The California hit parade keeps on rolling as yet Another California city scrambles to avoid bankruptcy. Atwater, a city of roughly 28,000 in California's Central Valley, may declare a fiscal emergency as soon as next week, but it is trying to avoid becoming the fourth California city to file for municipal bankruptcy this year, its mayor said.

COMMENT “Unless there are aboriginal people in this building,” councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam intoned at city council on Thursday, “every single one of us, and our ancestors, arrived to this country at some point in time as undocumented workers…. Let’s acknowledge that once and for all.” Actually, let’s not.

Carl Dincesen submits:Some might think short term lending is less risky than long. In the municipal market, for many issuers that is usually not the case, particularly today. When additional borrowing is necessary to redeem tax and revenue anticipation cash flow notes it is called a “rollover” - sell new notes to pay off the existing. It works as long as the market for the issuer’s notes remains open.

Christopher Menkin submits:

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