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ON THE BLOCK WHERE I LIVE ... LOCATION; LOCATION; LOCATION!
The Rental Application, advertisements, and recorded documents showed a sliding scale of rents, based on income.
When I received a move-in date and a rent of $475 / month, I paid. It was a bonafide contract.
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. The view from my window features homeless people sleeping, drinking alcohol, and fighting.
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After a lawsuit, the city donated this manufacturing parcel for the homeless and those at-risk of becoming homeless. The deed specifies the Area Median Income rent, which is a third of what is on my lease.
This noisy, shaking structure is between the fire/ambulance department and the railroad tracks. I couldn't transfer my voter registration, because it was on the site of a factory, zoned manufacturing, next to a city lot that has Hazard Warning on its rusted-out storage building. It is near an industrial park, before it gets to a commercial zone. The nearest residential zoning is multi-use, all the way across Commonwealth Blvd. It is one block from the train/bus station, where homeless are dropped off from a night shelter, with nothing to do. There is a high density of liquor licenses, crime, and gunfire.
Tell me what property is truly "COMPARABLE", besides a homeless tent city! The listed "amenities" do not exist.
Google Maps and Mapquest show the railroad, fire station, manufacturing, and industrial area, along with a homeless encampment across the tracks.
This is where I live, and it is nowhere near comparable to the well-manicured apartments in nice, residential areas, that OCHA compared, in order to establish a reasonable rent. After viewing my block, see if these 3 other places are comparable.
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This is where I live, and it is nowhere near comparable to the well-manicured apartments, with pools, spas, storage, garages, and plenty of off-street parking for tenant and guests, in nice, residential areas.
See the 3 neighborhoods that were compared, in order to establish a reasonable rent. After viewing my block, see if these 3 other places are comparable.
https://katydiddd.tripod.com/compare.html
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