Wheeler v. Rent Control Board

This is an appeal by the rent control board of Cambridge (board) from a judgment entered in the Superior Court which determined that the plaintiffs’ residence is an owner-occupied three-family house which is exempt from St. 1976, c. 36, the Cambridge Rent Control Act (Act).2 The board argues that the property is a five-family dwelling and therefore is not exempt from rent control.

The facts are not in dispute. Since at least 1973 the property has been registered with the board as containing five residential *483units, four of which were rented to tenants and one of which was owner-occupied. After…