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Other tenants opposed any general rent increase. While a member of the Cambridge Tenants Organization waved a sign saying "Stop Landlord Super-Profits," Frances Segal, head of the Cambridge Committee of Elders, said, "The purpose of rent control is to protect the landlord from the ravages of inflation...
...advantages of home ownership. The average price of a one-bedroom condominium in Cambridge is $28,000-$35,000. Joe will only need $6,000-$7,000 as a deposit. He may also be able to obtain a low interest purchase money mortgage from his landlord, or since Joe is a tenant in the building there is a good chance that he will receive a significant discount in the purchase price of his unit. The average monthly costs for owning a condominium similar to Joe's would amount to approximately $475 per month. Joe will also benefit on tax deductions...
...reporter for the Washington Post who had been assigned temporarily to New York City. The agents furnished the first floor with expensive antiques borrowed from the Smithsonian Institution and spent some $25,000 on renovations. These included an elaborate alarm system (to protect the antique furniture, the reporter-landlord was told), new chandeliers, other lighting fixtures, and a false ceiling in the basement-presumably to conceal TV cameras and microphones. On a visit, the reporter found a locked door off the base ment recreation room...
...Waverly owes its existence, in a sense, to two highly unlikely and unwitting patrons: Arthur Godfrey and an unmusical Greenwich Village landlord. It was Godfrey's ukulele playing that first prompted Jaffee, a furrier's son, to begin strumming the guitar as a boy in Brooklyn. Later, while studying musicology at N.Y.U., he met Kay, a pianist whose landlord had forbidden her to practice in her apartment. She took up the recorder as a consolation, and Michael experimented with accompanying her on the lute. Inspired by Noah Greenberg's pioneering New York Pro Musica, they "roped...
...have encountered intransigence on Harvard Real Estate's part; they continued to put us off until we convinced them on each occasion of the seriousness of our concerns, and that has meant in general recourse to the law. Rather than celebrate the dawn of a new age in landlord-tenant relations, we soberly suggest that the operations of Harvard Real Estate be scruitinized by the Cambridge community at large. Their policy is plainly based on maximizing profits, making repairs and improvements only when they must. Harvard Real Estate is of course a corporate entity within Harvard University, and so Harvard...