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...student, however, the extent of private industry rip-off is liable to be less serious than for those making their way in the world, those who must confront daily landlord-tenant situations, bill payments, insurance claims, and other harsh realities which entail numerous rip-off possibilities. The Phillips Brooks House small claims committee, operating out of Roxbury's municipal courthouse small claims advisory service, provides a campus link to the world of everyday consumer problems, and a chance for students to help combat them. Emily Skoler '82, last year's PBH small claims president, describes small claims as "a people...
...cases happily, as their more informal nature allows the opposing parties to break through stumbling blocks like pride and anger and get through to the underlying problem, which oftentimes has little or nothing to do with the original grievance. The majority of cases, explains Skoler, are between acquaintances. Landlord-tenant cases abound, followed by longterm customer service cases and family or neighbor squabbles. Another common case involves the "I bought it; it broke" syndrome, though with a thousand variations on a theme...
...want to buy as soon as I find out what I'm going to be doing.' " One Ford Republican, however, was farsighted. When Carter was elected, he rented out his McLean house and moved back to California. But he put one clause in the lease: the tenant had 30 days to vacate if a Republican became President...
After the work was done, Harvard submitted records showing more than $40,000 in expenses and asked for a rent increase to defray the cost. A tenant representative who asked not to be identified said yesterday the increase amounted to an average of 22 per cent for each apartment...
...tenant representative said the University had in fact paid more than $600 per room for the painting job. "The figures are incredible--I think there's a good chance the examiner will cut back on the size of the increase he recommended," the tenant said...