Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They would sometimes charge us over $100 a month by figuring their rates on a daily basis," the plaintiffs claimed, "when the actual charge per month was only $55. On other occasions, bonds which has been given to guarantee payment of rents would not be returned if the prospective tenant was unable to move...
...Permitted "voluntary increases" of 15% if landlord and tenant agree. 8. With an eye on the veteran vote in 1948, Congress passed a bill...
...Manhattan, an apartment-house tenant last week was handed an ultimatum from his landlord. He could either buy his apartment for $10,000 or he would have to move out to make room for someone who would. When the tenant took his troubles to the Office of Rent Control, he found-along with hundreds of others-that the new rent-control law had a loophole. And landlords, chafing under rent ceilings, had found it. They could sell their apartments to tenants-or outside buyers-as "cooperatives," without so much as a by-your-leave from...
This week, the half-finished Casa de Mexico got its first tenant, Mexican Consul General Gustavo Ortiz Hernan. Lucchese was sure that by the time construction was finished in the fall, the 87 other offices would be rented, mostly, he hoped, to importers and exporters...
...leased a five-room, $150-a-month Manhattan apartment, Student Benjamin Chilman, 19, advertised it for rent, collected $6,500 in advance from seven eager sublessees, gave each a phony key and told them all they could move in on the same day. Thanks to a suspicious eighth tenant, police moved in instead...