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Harvard rented an apartment to a commercial tenant illegally, according to a ruling by the Cambridge Rent Control Board last month...
...board, which oversees enforcement of rent control laws in Cambridge, found that both Harvard and the Ferranti-Dege camera store had violated a city ordinance by renting a residential apartment at 1306 Massachusetts Ave. to a commercial tenant...
...Harvard] claimed that they did not know when they rented it that it was to a commercial tenant," said Margaret Drury, the executive director of the board...
...Regular tenants are not so happy. Three have broken their lease. Said one tenant who intends to move: "They've turned it into a fraternity house." But a businessman whose office overlooks bikini-clad students basking by the swimming pool allows as how he has no complaints...
...Mass. Ave., a University-owned building across from Wigglesworth Hall, it took Harvard at least three months to issue an eviction notice to a tenant illegally using his rent-controlled apartment for commercial purposes. This summer, the Cambridge Rent Control Board found that HRE broke the law in the case of 1306 Mass. Ave. Once again, the University was proven guilty of keeping a low-income apartment off an already-tight housing market; in a city where the turnover rate is less than 2 percent annually...