Word: landlordism
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...decision city tenant activists called a strong warning to landlords thinking of converting their apartments to condominiums, a state court this week fined a Cambridge landlord $8,000 for making renovations without a building permit...
...They only thing that will trigger the removal permit ordinance is if the landlord takes the unit off the rental market," Sullivan said, adding that landlords attempt to skirt the law by selling the units to "investors" who serve as "dummy owners" for the actual occupants...
...self-proclaimed birthplace of frozen yogurt, the Spa of Harvard Square, closed last week after the store's landlord alledgedly refused to renew the restaurant's lease...
Both the owner of The Spa and the building's landlord were unavailable for comment yesterday...
This is Flannery O'Connor country, where souls are gnarled and agony seems the only common measure of humanity. Even the corpulent landlord, Mr. Wick, who first comes into focus as a Dickensian villain, on closer inspection becomes merely a grownup, terrified boy forever humiliated by a sadistic father...