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...Tenant-landlord "codetermination" of major building policies and decisions...
...dependence on foreign resources, to search now for oil and minerals in order to prevent the inevitable panic rush on lands later if those resources were shut off. He insists that regulatory interference has blocked such development, that the Interior Department has been arrogant and offensive, a poor landlord. Watt has already cut way back on enforcement and investigative personnel, and conservationists are frankly worried. Says one: "Now the environmental reviews and other checks simply won't get done. That's how these developers will get past the regulation barricades...
Owners cannot afford to make energy-conserving improvements without rent increases, Paul Watkins, a Cambridge landlord, said, explaining, "The rent board does not approve rent increases until after increased expenses are incurred, so it's landlords who bear the burden of inflation...
...cases that come before small claims courts read like a dossier on human nature--normal, bizarre, humorous and, sometimes, personally tragic. One case that came up before the PBH group this summer gave new meaning to "problem solving". Known simply as the "skunk case," a woman brought her landlord to court for an unusual claim of negligence. The air vent in the ceiling of the woman's apartment had been falling off regularly; and the landlord then fixed it, to his credit. However, when a small skunk found its way through the roof and into the air vent, the grate...
Another typically screwball case occurred again between landlord and tenant. The "refrigerator case" originated when a woman leased an apartment from a new landlord two weeks before moving in, bought a refrigerator and stocked it with groceries to have ready when she moved in. The woman arrived two weeks later and found no trace of food or refrigerator. The landlord, it turned out, was a heroin addict who had eaten all the groceries and then sold the fridge to finance his habit. The woman won the case easily, and moved in the next...