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Landlord Tenant News: February 20 to February 26, 2010

Will Dufty Protect North Beach Seniors from Eviction?; TICs have lost that loving feeling; Ammiano Introduces Socially Responsible Investment Act; Backlash Hits Calpers Property Deals; Hedge Fund Moves on Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village; Mortgage crisis brings creeping decay to middle-class apartment buildings from Calif to NY

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Landlord Tenant News: January 16 to January 22, 2010

N.Y.C. Tries Saving Housing Imperiled by Investors; SF City Attorney Sues Landlord For Endangering Safety of Tenants; Landlord’s Defamation Suit Against Tenant Over Moldy Apartment Tweet Dismissed; North Beach: parking, owners, tenants all unwelcome; More Lembi buildings sell; Problems Mount at a Bronx Building Bought in a Bubble

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Landlord Tenant News: January 1 to January 8, 2010

Rats and bedbugs take over where Dawnay, Day left off in Harlem; Re’Anita Burns Looks Back on a Decade of Organizing in East Palo Alto; Judicial Bias Out of Control in SF Superior Court; Renters would like a tax break too; Bronx tenants win case citing Stuy Town; Page Mill’s East Palo Alto buildings to hit the auction block Feb. 1; Affordable housing ruling a setback to cities

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SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Ant Infestation

At the beginning of the cold snap, the ants were gone. My stomach sank. I knew they were in the house. A few days later they made their ingress at the base of our food pantry, and there were suddenly hundreds of ants swarming on those food shelves, and over to more food shelves on the other side of the house.

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