Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What you're doing with this legislation is taking the right away from the tenant to dispute the rent they're escrowing," he said...
...only instance where people must pay to have their claims heard by court," says Cambridge tenant Kevin Bradley, a member of Cambridge's Eviction-Free Zone, a tenants' rights organization...
...reading of this bill is that if a tenant does not pay every cent the landlord claims is owed, then he won't get before a judge," said Annette Duke of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, arguing against the bill Monday...
...does is require that you escrow your rent to use code violations as a defense," he says. "A tenant is always entitled to a hearing in eviction disputes...
Currently, if a tenant files code violations, he is legally allowed to withhold rent until a judge orders him to pay (which occurs once the code violations have been resolved...