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April 25th, 2012

For Stewards of Historic Homes, No Salary but Unbeatable Rent

Originally Published in the NY Times, April 20, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/nyregion/for-caretakers-a-rent-free-life-in-new-yorks-historic-homes.html?ref=nyregion

It has been nearly a quarter-century since Roy Fox had a regular salary. He is not a lottery winner or the recipient of some grand family fortune. He is, in short, the type of person who long ago would have been priced out by New York’s ever-climbing housing market. (more…)