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...current tenants who won't buy? Brookline, which last year repealed a similar law, illustrates this danger: the Brookline Rent Control Board and tenant activists heard that tenants were "encouraged" to leave if they didn't want to buy. And the problem of harassment is difficult to prove and even harder to stop...
Even owners of single-family houses find their lives regulated. If a faculty family goes, say, to Washington or Berkeley for three years and rents their Cambridge house, the city (not they and their tenants) determines the monthly rent. The city even controls the length of the rental. Long after a lease has expired, a tenant may still be entitled to stay in your family's home indefinitely, which makes selling it very difficult, if not impossible...
...merit, but via "Reward for Rent-Controlled Apartment" posters on our streets. One current sign, for example, stuck in front of the Coop bookstore building, offers (on professionally printed, slick, self-stick paper) $1500 cash for information leading to a rentcontrolled apartment. This money is customarily paid to a tenant moving out, for introducing the reward payer to the landlord...
Kossan said that a tenant has two weeks to ask the committee to reconsider a rent increase. Last year the committee received only three complaints, she said...
...Turk dismissed the paucity of tenant complaints, saying, "I don't think that's any measure of people's happiness or whether those rates are fair...