Word: landlordism
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...basis, of Harvard Real Estate's profit-maximizing policies generally, may work for reform for several years, but eventually decide to move away. You don't need a Ph.D in business or public administration, then, to come up with the most efficient policy for the money hungry landlord. Some basic basketball strategy will suffice: spread out your offensive resources into four corners, and stall...
...bands, fireworks, clowns and a souped-up roller coaster that cruises at fearsome speeds. "The World's Fair is going to be a staggering success," promises Knoxville City Planner Lee Kribbs. Not everyone is euphoric. At least 1,000 tenants have been forced out of their apartments by landlords giddy at the prospect of renting $200-a-month apartments to out-of-towners for $600 a week. In response to the evictions, the city set up a World's Fair Housing Board to mediate tenant-landlord disputes. Warns Lawyer John Austin: "Some landlords still haven...
...tenants have continued to criticize what they call Harvard's profit maximizing real estate policies and their harsh effects on low and moderate income residents. Harvard is now the city's largest landlord...
...days after the incident I received a two-page letter from HRE's attorney, Mr. Daniel Polvere, writing, he said, for "Harvard Real Estate, Inc., managing agent for President [sic] and Fellows of Harvard College, your landlord." Mr. Polvere threatened to evict me and my family from our apartment, accused me of assaulting and battering" the workman, and accused me of placing debris on my stairway (and presumably on my head, where some debris happened to fall as I was leaving my building) "to fabricate the appearance that debris was falling on the steps or was being left there...
...long ago, a bad spring seemed in the offing too. The landlord of one shop wanted to raise Basile's rent from $300 a month to about $350. Basile is a businessman; Landlord Richard Gerrity is a businessman; businessmen compromise. Says Gerrity: "Creativity is important." Thus he gave his negotiator a single, unorthodox instruction: "Get the most number of sandwiches that you possibly...