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...Diego suburb of El Cajon last month when he noticed smoke pouring from an apartment house across the street. Vaulting a fence, Pallamary, 32, rushed into the building and, despite thick smoke and intense heat, pounded on doors to alert some 30 occupants. Then he tried unsuccessfully to rescue Tenant Tim Hurley, 19. Finally Pallamary collapsed. When he left the hospital two days later, he was handed a city paramedic bill for $189.93 -- including a 50% surcharge because he lives out of town...
...University-owned building across from Wigglesworth Hall, it took HRE at least three months to issue an eviction notice to a tenant using his rent-controlled apartment for commercial purposes. Regardless of an upcoming decision from the Cambridge Rent Control Board on whether Harvard broke the law in the case of 1306 Mass. Ave., the University can be blamed for keeping a low-income apartment off an already-tight housing market. In a city where the turnover rate is less than 2 percent annually, that's criminal...
...tenant activists, Robert La Tremouille and Michael Turk, have filed a complaint with the rent control commission saying that Harvard's permit to renovate 10 Mt. Auburn is illegal because it will tear up a rent control apartment, and La Tremouille said he is awaiting the results of their appeal to the commission...
...encountered some unexpected resistance. One landlord objected to her children. Another did not want to take on a "welfare case" with a record of refusing to pay her rent. Finally, Delgado discovered the source of her trouble: her name had been added to an electronic registry of "bad tenant risks" available by subscription to any local property owner. As party to a tenant-landlord suit, Delgado had been automatically included in a computer blacklist...
...many states across the U.S., tenant lists have become a growth industry. "It seems to be an idea that is catching on," says Paul Jenney of Springfield, Mass., whose Landlord Reports Computer Service will, for $4, deliver a profile of any one of 100,000 Bay State tenants who have ever butted heads with their landlords. Denver-based RentCheck boasts a coast-to-coast network; its subscribers control 2.5 million rental units, some 10% of the % total U.S. rental housing supply...