25 Mass. App. Ct. 951 | Mass. App. Ct. | 1988
The plaintiffs, immediately upon their purchase of the vacancy decontrolled housing accommodation in question, demanded of the tenant a twenty-six percent increase in the monthly rent which was intended to take effect on a date which was less than twelve months from the effective date of an earlier increase which the previous landlord had demanded and received from the same tenant. The tenant met the plaintiffs’ demand but filed a rent grievance petition with the Boston rent equity board (board), which, after hearing, invalidated the plaintiffs’ demand and ordered them to refund all amounts collected by them in excess of the monthly rent the tenant had been paying the previous landlord immediately prior to the plaintiff’s purchase of the accommodation. The Boston Housing Court, in de novo proceedings, annulled the decision and order of the board and directed it to enter a new decision which would give effect to the rent increase demanded by the plaintiffs. The board and the tenant appealed.
So ordered.
The tenant’s appeal was not perfected.
No question has been raised as to the validity of the ordinance or the regulation.