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...That was an argument based on rhetoric and not too much else," says Kennedy School student and study author Patrick J. Dober of the discount theory. In fact, Dober found, the average discount 1-2-3 would give tenants is a mere 8 percent...
...Dober based his study on the premise that the first part of 1-2-3 would place tenants in a position similar to that of tenants who lived in rent-controlled apartments before the city's Removal Permit Ordinance...
...examining the purchase price paid by pre-1979 tenants for their apartments and comparing it to the estimated market price, Dober came up with the 8 percent figure...
...Cambridge realtor Frederick R. Meyer--Proposition 1-2-3's author--argues that the 50 percent figure is an accurate one. He says Dober's study has a false premise, adding that the Kennedy School student calculated figures in an unorthodox way, resulting in misleading statistics...
...these findings will eventually differ from last year's report by Dober and Associates which recommended renovations of more than $50 million is not known for sure. But, officials says, the nature of this year's study is more detailed and specific than the Dober report, which one official termed "quite global." Some officials fear that the highly analytical quality of the report will bear more bad news: that renovations may cost even more than the figures suggested by the Dober report. But Coburn and others see the study as a potentially beneficial, alerting the College to specific steps which...