Word: condos
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Mike and Hope Tyler had vacationed at a condo in Delaware's crowded resort town of Rehoboth Beach for years. But when Mike decided to retire and they visited friends in nearby Lewes, the Tylers were smitten. Perched where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic, Lewes (pronounced Loo-iss) is a quiet Dutch seaport with pristine beaches, elegant Victorian homes and a nearby state park. The Tylers bid on an ornate Queen Anne-style fixer-upper and, after finishing the restoration, opened a bed-and-breakfast, the Wild Swan Inn, in 1993. "We selected Lewes because it had small-town...
...tired of picking up dropped socks, women rushed into the work force. They haven't achieved full economic independence by any means (women still earn only 75% of what men do), but more and more of them are realizing that ancient female dream--a room, or better yet, a condo of their...
...This would be a local condo control ordinance that would serve to enhance the state's current ordinance," Cavellini says. "The current one doesn't specify what condo conversion is, and it is very easy to get around the regulations...
Shachter's proposal, similarly to the condo-conversion ordinance currently in effect in Boston, includes a list of factors that are early indicators that a landlord is thinking of converting a property into condominiums. One such factor is a hike in rent of more than 10 percent...
While the condo-conversion statute represents an effort by activists to make the best of a Cambridge without rent control, many are still hopeful for its return...