Word: landlordism
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During Curley's term, however, there existed an "abatements racket," whereby certain property owners were given rebates on their assessment by dubious re-evaluations. If a landlord wishes to get an abatement on his assessment in Boston, he applies to the City Assessor's office and pays the fee demanded. Whether or not the abatement is granted, that fee is attached to the property owner's assessment from that year on; the money apparently goes directly to the Board of Assessors each year. That's one sources of excess intake in the Assessment Division. But, there is a further explicitly...
...Church on North Audley Street where the ceremony took place, musical bigwigs like Sir Thomas Beecham rubbed elbows with Britain's royal dukes & duchesses and 200 stout Yorkshiremen from the village of Harewood, who had come up to town in Sunday best to salute their young landlord. As the bridal automobile swept away from the St. James's Palace reception that followed, a single tiny Cinderella-like silver slipper could be seen bobbing in the dust behind...
Something was also being done about the big TV problem that lurked upstairs. Buyers were shying away from the high ($50 to $150) cost of installing and servicing aerials; worse still, many an apartment landlord was forbidding any more installations on his already cluttered rooftop, thus hitting hard at the big city audience, television's best market. To meet this threat, Raytheon Manufacturing Co. and Chicago's Earl ("Madman") Muntz had each brought out sets with built-in aerials, which gave fair service in areas where signals were strong...
Chemical Warfare. In Milwaukee, Landlord Oswald Hemmerling, suing to evict Tenant Charles Baumgartner, charged that Mrs. Baumgartner fed garlic to the Hemmerlings...
Owners of small structures (four dwelling units or less) whose net operating income from rents is less than 25% of their total yearly take will be allowed to boost their return to 30%. Example: A landlord takes in $1,000 a year in rents, spends $800 of it for labor, taxes, fuel, depreciation, etc. His profit is $200, so the Government will let him boost his rent enough to raise his profit from 20 to 30%. He will be allowed to raise his gross rents to $1,143, for a profit of $343. Owners of larger structures will be allowed...