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Ousting The Tenants

  Dear Edith: I'm sure you've heard from many people about this one! Rather than evicting that elderly couple who have called the apartment their home for the last 53 years, perhaps the Legrees, oh my mistake, I mean the writer's parents, could find a buyer for their property who would be willing to accept the current renters as tenants.If that were not possible, perhaps they could assist the couple in finding suitable alternate housing.
 
 

Yes,you're not the only one who wrote in protest.The original letter came from a man whose parents couldn't sell their double house because the upstairs tenants wouldn't allow the apartment to be shown and wouldn't make any plans to move out. I guess I didn't show enough sympathy for those old folks.

 

    Edith
Originally published on March 20, 2005
 
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