FTC Seeks Comments on Rental Housing Fees and Negative Option Marketing

On March 13, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published two Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRMs) seeking public comment on potential new rules addressing unfair or deceptive acts and practices (UDAP) in the rental housing market and negative option marketing practices, such as subscriptions and automatic renewals. The rental housing fee ANPRM follows a series of enforcement actions against major rental providers in which the FTC alleged that the companies excluded mandatory fees... By: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck