Mortgage Underwriting & Realty Co. v. Bowles

LAWS, Judge.

This case involves a complaint against an order of the Regional Administrator of the Office of Price Administration reducing the rent of complainant’s apartment building in San Francisco, California. The building was not rented on March 1, 1942, the maximum rent date for the Area, nor during the two months ending on that date. Subsequent to the maximum rent date it was first rented on November 14, 1942, the agreed rental being $250 per month. Under Section 4(e) of the Regulation,1 this became the maximum rent.

On June 11, 1943, the Area Rent Director notified complainant that it…