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...they become part-time owners, people sometimes find that their dreams turn into nightmares. During a year, dozens of families can wind up occupying a unit, with some stealing the linen or perhaps wrecking the living-room sofa and thereby adding to upkeep costs. Says Barney Logan, a condo dweller in Honolulu, whose 47-unit building now includes about a dozen time-share apartments: "When we first came here, nothing was said about time sharing. Then the flood started. There was overuse of utilities, maintenance costs went up, and sometimes you couldn't even get an elevator, there were...
...many of the tenants to act on their wish to purchase their homes as condominiums. Singling out one building in a specific ordinance makes precious little sense. Enforcement of the law should remain the prerogative of the Rent Control Board. If there is any special hardship for any apartment dweller, they can deal with...
...American Dream' [Oct. 5]. While he recognizes the frustration of those who can't afford the type of home their parents owned, he neglects the plight of those whose parents were forced or chose to live in apartments. I am a second-generation rent-paying apartment dweller who has reconstrued the American dream to be a lofty one-bedroom, with Betamax and Jacuzzi, overlooking the lights of midtown Manhattan...
Certain American neighborhoods once possessed a similar palpable soul, the neighborhood being the urban apartment dweller's substitute for an ancestral house and grounds. In a sense, it is the soul that Americans yearn after when they think of houses. After an earthquake or tornado, the news always lists the dead, the missing and the "homeless," the last being considered itself a kind ol wound a private desolation. We all drive past the house where 'we grew up and stare at it oddly, with a strange ache, as if to extract some meaning from it that has been...
...bazaars are operated as private enterprises by farmers or nimble entrepreneurs who offer abundant quantities of fruits and vegetables at prices slightly higher than the state stores. A free-market egg costs about 40?, for example, compared with 30? for one in a state store. The more wealthy city dweller may drive out into the country and buy meat directly and illegally from a farmer. One Gdansk bureaucrat admits that he and a neighbor buy whole pigs and then salt the meat down in barrels. Such stratagems have become so common that the government last month prohibited the sale...