Anastasi v. RENT CONTROL BOARD OF CAMBRIDGE

The issue before us grew out of an undisputed sequence of events which may be summarized briefly (dates are unimportant). The plaintiff (owner) purchased a four-unit rent controlled building at 70 Mount Vernon Street, Cambridge, and she moved into one unit on the third floor. After the tenants in the second-floor unit below moved out, the owner renovated the two units by creating direct internal access from the second-floor unit to the third and by converting a kitchen in the latter to a bedroom. The combined units were thereafter occupied by the owner and another. The tenants in two…