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...tenants at 22-24 Prescott Street, a Harvard Real Estate-run building, we are not optimistic that the removal of Hunneman and Company, Inc., as managers of many of Harvard's real estate properties will result in better services for tenants or greater responsiveness to tenant concerns. In our experience Hunneman's record as a landlord was a rather sorry one of neglect and mismanagement. At the same time, however, our dealings with Harvard Real Estate have shown them to be arrogant and at least as unresponsive and mismanaged as Hunneman...
...part of the landlord: they responded to our report that the building was in serious disrepair by petitioning the Cambridge Rent Board to increase our rents by 35 to 90%. Only after the Cambridge Health Department cited over 130 health code violations in our apartments and the building did Hunneman and Harvard Real Estate begin to make repairs--with the implict threat that they would be taken to court if they did not make the repairs. At first Harvard Real Estate used Hunneman as a whipping boy for past mistakes and current problems: tenants were told that Harvard Real Estate...
...week later, Bland and Wade announced to the tenants that Harvard and Hunneman were applying to the Cambridge Rent Control Board for a 35 per cent to 90 per cent rent increase. The "special adjustment" hike was based on the capital improvements Harvard and Hunneman were going to make. Sally H. Zeckhauser, president of Harvard Real Estate, just established last fall, said...
...examiner's hearing, Leo Manis, a tenant, said. Nipson once returned from work at 6 a.m., only to have unannounced workmen awake him at seven. Another time, Nipson returned home to find all his kitchen utensils moved by painters from the kitchen and left on the living room floor. "Hunneman just didn't have its heart in the repairs," he said...
Turk said Harvard Real Estate treated us like "peons." Daniel Polvere, attorney for Harvard Real Estate, said at the examiner's hearing that he found meetings with tenants "distasteful." And Jack Feeney, a former superintendent for the buildings, reportedly told a tenant that Hunneman asked him "not to talk with residents...