United States Court of Appeals
                             For the Eighth Circuit
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                                No. 19-2790
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                              Theresa Marie Barbero

                        lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellant

                                           v.

                       Wilhoit Property Management, Inc.

                       lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellee
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                      Appeal from United States District Court
                 for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield
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                           Submitted: February 26, 2020
                              Filed: March 2, 2020
                                 [Unpublished]
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Before GRUENDER, WOLLMAN, and STRAS, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

      Theresa Barbero, proceeding pro se, brought this civil action against Wilhoit
Property Management, Inc., the owner of an apartment building where she briefly
lived. The district court 1 dismissed her complaint and denied her request to amend
it.

       We conclude that dismissal was proper. See Hopkins v. City of Bloomington,

, 491 (8th Cir. 2014) (stating that we apply de-novo review to the grant
of a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim). Barbero’s proposed amendments
would not have fixed the problems with her complaint, so it would have been futile
to give her leave to amend it. See Plymouth Cty. v. Merscorp, Inc., 

,
1160 (8th Cir. 2014) (explaining that a determination of futility is a legal conclusion
subject to de-novo review); Reuter v. Jax Ltd., 

, 922 (8th Cir. 2013)
(noting that futility is a sufficient reason to deny leave to amend). We accordingly
affirm the judgment of the district court. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
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      1
      The Honorable Stephen R. Bough, United States District Judge for the
Western District of Missouri.
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