Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help in taking back his goods without first giving a hearing to the customer accused of being delinquent. Since then, repossession statutes have been quietly dying in a number of states, most recently in Alaska, Iowa and Massachusetts. Along with repossession, the lower courts have taken up landlord-and-tenant laws, as well as the conduct of state-regulated utilities. In Colorado, New York, Ohio and Minnesota, gas and electric companies have now been warned that they may no longer automatically shut off service when a computer says the bill has gone unpaid for too long. The customer...
George Nadjarian, a member of the Cambridge Property Owners Association, told the Council that many small landlords cannot afford lawyers or time off from work to seek notices on tenants who refuse to pay rents. He cited the case of one landlord who lost $406 in back rent while waiting seven months to obtain an eviction notice on a non-paying tenant...
...have a good conservation going Mrs. Ellis tells Mr. Lee she's going to Detroit for Christmas to visit her son, who is in the Air Force and will retire after 17 more years to Florida. Where his pension will allow him to become a happy landlord Mr. Lee is going to Detroit to visit his daughters. They sent me money to take a plane, but I didn't want any of that I sent the money back told them your daddy's coming to visit you but he's coming...
...beater" (Mrs. Emmett doesn't like modern gadgetry, and when she first moved into the apartment she ignored the built-in garbage disposal and dishwasher. After a while she realized that they might deteriorate from back to use, so now she puts them occasionally, just to keep the landlord happy...
...Cambridge court has awarded three former city tenants damages in excess of $4600 for rents collected illegally by their landlord, Dominic Lamantea...