Figueiredo v. Rent Control Board

This is an appeal by the rent control board of Cambridge (board) and tenants from a judgment of the Superior Court which determined that the twelve rental units owned by the plaintiff at 9 Magazine Street (property) are not subject to St. 1976, c. 36, the Cambridge rent control act (Act).

We recite the undisputed relevant facts. For many years, the property, a three-story building, had been operated as a thirty-three room rooming house with shared bathroom facilities. In 1975, the then owner was given permission by the Cambridge board of zoning appeal to convert the property *662to thirteen…