0 to MANCHESTER HERALD, Tuesday. July 2, 1985 MANCHESTER FOCUS BOLTON WEATHER BUSINESS MACC gets $127,000 Put some cool into Cheney takes helm j I Mostly fair tonight; to help with shelter those summer meals on Board of Selectmen j sunny on Thursday Apartment leases/Tandmine for unsuspecting ... page 4 ... page 13 ... page 4 ... page 2 put In writing to the landlord, or the landlord may learned this lesson the really hard w a y !) Do you feel queasy whenever you have to sign a Of course, everything written above refers to what abrogate the lease. lease because you fear that, more often than not, the is known in the trade as a landlord's lease. And a landlord has language in the lease that lets him walk SUII another common clause, says Bates "is like a sneak rider on a piece of legislation." You, the tenant, landlord can no more absolve himself of liability for all over your rights? Your negligence than can the owner of a parking lot. But if Do you realize that one of the toughest clauses in the agree that the storerooms are provided and Money's mainUined gratuitously by the landlord; you, in turn, you are desperate for a place to live, at least find out standard lease agreement provideslhat you, a tenant, what you are getting into. may be evicted with five days notice if your landlord agree that if you or your family use the storerooms, it Worth shall be at your own proper risk; the landlord is not to In addition to prohibitions against children and deems your conduct objectionable or improper? And pets, you might be handed a lease that restricts what another toughie is that even if such essential services Sylvia Porter be or become liable thereby for any loss or damage to persons or property because of such use. But then the you can do with and on a balcony (no hibachi cooking, as operation of elevators and furnishing of heat cease for instance); prohibits you from placing radios or TV due to accident, repair, maintenance or the like, you paragraph goes on, "whether such property.be Manchester, Conn. — A ’City of Village Charm Wednesday, July 3, 1985 — Single copy: 25<t contained in the storerooms, in the demised premises antennas outside your windows; forbids flowerpots on still must continue to live up to your obligations under window sills: bans the installation of shades not received the required money, to postpone Indefinitely or in any portion of said building.” the lease. supplied by the landlord. As a reasonably intelligent individual who has been the (ji^livery of the apartment. Under these Note; The paragraph starts by talking about storerooms and concludes by absolving the landlord Prior to signing a lease, make a list of all defects and and is a tenant in New York City as well as a circumstances, reports Don Biggs in a new book, get the landlord’s agreement in writing to make homeowner in exurbia, 1 am acutely aware that my "How To Avoid Lawyers: A Step-by-Step Buide to of responsibility for damage to the tenant's property "in the demised premises or in any portion of said repairs by a specific date. understanding of leases, subleases, rental applica­ Being Your Own Lawyer in Almost Every Situation," Photograph each room, especially cracked walls, the tenant has no cause for legal action and can lose building." tions, lease renewals, parking space leases, storage nail holes, broken fixtures, stained or burned carpets. space leases, all the rest, is inadequate. So, probably, the required up-front money. Bates suggests that this (Long ago, I rented a tiny apartment in lower Fifth Israel frees 300 of its Shiite prisoners Of course, there are good landlords! But most is your understanding. clause be omitted or changed to ensure delivery of the Avenue and used the storerooms for my extra furniture. When I was ready to move, I went down to leases are drawn up by landlord’s lawyers and real For instance, there is a provision common to New apartment. homes, Israel radio said. captors of the American hostages the storage space: no furniture. I hunted: nothing. No estate boards. Scrutinize the lease. If you must rent, Bv Vivien Rovston The Israeli Army announced the stripe and black suits with a red Israeli soldiers stood on top of York leases (and those of other areas) which allows Another common clause provides that the residence Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin had demanded the release of the one cared; no one could be accused. I left the you may not be able to change the provisions, but United Press International released of the 300 men had been stripe, flashed V signs as they ran the 20-foot concrete, barbed-wire- the landlord under certain circumstances, after must be used as a private residence. If you plan to use reiterated in a speech to the Israeli 735 Moslem prisoners held without apartment with the little I had in the apartment. I you’ll know what you face. completed nearly seven hours to nine buses parked outside the topped wall surrounding the coi- having signed a lease with a tenant and having the apartment for professional purposes, this must be Red Cross that there was no link charges at Atlit since April. ATLIT, Israel — Israel today after the prisoners boarded the Atlit military prison, 10 miles pound while the prisoners boarded between the release of the prison­ The Arab prisoners were taken released 300 of the more than 700 buses. south of the port of Haifa. the buses. ers and the freeing of the 39 into'custody by Israeli forces in mostly Shiite Moslem prisoners The army said the release was " I believe our release is a Shiite Each bus was carrying about 30 American hostages from the hi­ southern Lebanon at the end of whose freedom was demanded by made in accordance with its policy victory," one prisoner told an or more prisoners and five or six Exxon likely to appeal payment order Israeli military policemen. There jacked TWA airliner. their three-year occupation. They Business the hijackers of TWA Flight 847 of considering the security situa­ Israel radio reporter through a bus "There is no linkage between the were brought to Israel in violation and drove them in a heavily tion in southern Lebanon and in window. " I feel well. I am happy to were two empty buses in case any of the nine loaded vehicles encoun­ release of the hostages and our of international law when Israeli Court to order a trial. exploration after the Arab oil embargo. involving between $3 billion and $4 guarded convoy to Lebanon. cooperation with the Red Cross. A be going back to Lebanon. We were In Brief By JudI Hasson policy, which we continue to troops closed down a prison camp In Houston, S.J. Reso, Exxon execu­ The law allowed companies to charge billion. The largest remaining case, The men, held in a military Red Cross convoy was on hand to treated well here." tered mechanical problems en United Press International implement, to release these Leba­ at Ansar, Lebanon, during their tive vice president, said: "W e are higher prices for domestic crude oil against Texaco, involves about $1 prison, were taken in nine buses to drive the prisoners to Tyre. The prisoners’ hands were bound route to the Lebanese border. About 25 Israeli troops accom­ nese detainees in accordance with withdrawal from the region. 2 CBT promotes Zvaigzne WASHINGTON - The Exxon Corp. extremely disappointed. produced after a certain date. Presi­ billion, he said. a checkpoint at Ras el Baiyada, 6 Army spokesmen on the scene and. after each bus was filled, the panied the convoy. Captives who the security developments in Israel has stated repeatedly that 3 "W e do not think it is proper for such dent Reagan lifted price controls Exxon argued that government regu­ miles north of the international said most of the detainees were window shades were pulled and the Irma B. Zvaigzne of the international documen­ says it probably will appeal a ruling by southern Ix'banon," Rabin said. it had intended to release the an important suit to be decided without shortly after he took office in 1981. lations were applied retroactively to oil frontier between Lebanon and Shiites, including some members doors were shut. live in the security zone patrolled tary services department of the Connecticut a special federal court ordering the by the Israeli-backed South Le­ The Shiite hijackers who seized prisoners even before the hijack­ a trial,” Reso said, adding that the The Energy Department charged from the Hawkins field — one of the Israel, on the outer edge of the of the extremist Hezbollah faction. Most of the freed prisoners were Bank and Trust Co. has been elected a vice world’s largest company to pay $1.9 banon Army would have to request the TWA jetliner on a flight from ing. It freed 31 during the 17-day Energy Department’s stand "is con­ that Exxon improperly classified oil largest oil fields in the continental security zone maintained by an The exuberant prisoners, wear­ young and had beards and crew president. billion for allegedly overpricing crude permission to return to their Athens to Rome June 14 and the hostage crisis. trary to the Intent of the regulations and from the Hawkins field as "new oil" United States. Israeli-backed militia. ing blue track suits with a white cuts. As manager of the international documentary oil from a Texas oil field.