Word: hunneman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story about a changing university. For decades, Harvard's non-academic holdings--homes, apartment buildings, stores and offices--were managed in a low-key, almost offhand way. The University Housing Office nominally ran the buildings; in practice, responsibility for the structures was largely given over to private contractors like Hunneman and Co., which managed the properties. Harvard was anything but an aggresive landlord--"I remember seeing one house, right on the edge of the Square, renting for $200 a month. This was a house, this was 1978, this was Harvard Square," a former University employee says. "The residents wanted...
...tenants at 22-24 Prescott Street, a Harvard Real Estate-run building, we are not optimistic that the removal of Hunneman and Company, Inc., as managers of many of Harvard's real estate properties will result in better services for tenants or greater responsiveness to tenant concerns. In our experience Hunneman's record as a landlord was a rather sorry one of neglect and mismanagement. At the same time, however, our dealings with Harvard Real Estate have shown them to be arrogant and at least as unresponsive and mismanaged as Hunneman...
...part of the landlord: they responded to our report that the building was in serious disrepair by petitioning the Cambridge Rent Board to increase our rents by 35 to 90%. Only after the Cambridge Health Department cited over 130 health code violations in our apartments and the building did Hunneman and Harvard Real Estate begin to make repairs--with the implict threat that they would be taken to court if they did not make the repairs. At first Harvard Real Estate used Hunneman as a whipping boy for past mistakes and current problems: tenants were told that Harvard Real Estate...
...With Hunneman no longer on the scene, Harvard Real Estate's role has become even clearer. In the last month we have found it necessary to engage an attorney to assure that Harvard Real Estate would abide by the terms of an agreement which tenants had reached with them about staging in the rent increase. Moreover, we have had to report to the Rent Board that Harvard Real Estate has not completed a major repair to the building which the Rent Board ordered them to do before the rent increase could be collected. Harvard Real Estate struck back by demanding...
...Estate is of course a corporate entity within Harvard University, and so Harvard Real Estate's policy of increasing their returns on their properties in Cambridge must be seen as Harvard University's policy. Harvard Real Estate tried to shift the blame for mistakes downstairs, to their managing agent, Hunneman. We recommend that the actual decision-makers, Harvard Real Estate and Harvard University, be held accountable for their policies and actions. Michael H. Turk Lorraine L. Iritano Leo Manis Howard Ramseur Ellinor Pedersen Herbert E. Nipson Denis P. Chabaneix Doreen M. Scott