Could it be that the perennial New York City battle between tenants and landlords is finally losing its bite? According to the Rent Guidelines Board, the number of complaints that tenants filed against their landlords between April 2013 and March 2014 was 9 percent lower than the filings for the previous year, and 19 percent lower than the logged beefs for three years before that. Landlords explain the dip is because everything is hunky-dory, while tenants' rights advocates say that renters don't aways know when and how to formally lodge a complaint. Yeah, doubt they'll ever see eye-to-eye on that one. [WSJ; previously]
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