Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories SOMERVILLE — It was the low-ball of all low-ball offers, insulting in the moment, laughable in retrospect. Four Harvard grad students renting a first-floor Dimick Street apartment received word in the spring of 2002 that their new landlord wanted to renovate their unit and put it on the market as a condominium. The kitchen and bathroom work would be performed, the students were told, while they were still living there. Dan Neafsey and his roommates took a break from doctorate work in evolutionary biology and scoured Somerville regulations and tenant law to discover their lease prevented such disruptive work. But they agreed to go along, if the landlord would give them a one-month break on their $1,850 rent. Then came the counteroffer from their landlord, a baby-faced Harvard undergrad named Jared Kushner: He would give them a $100 break. “My impression was that he was more interested in practicing playing hardball than being effective as a landlord,” Neafsey recalled of the young man who one day would marry Ivanka Trump and land an official role as a high-level adviser to President Trump. “The guy is, like, an 18-year-old Harvard trust kid,” said Steve Vollmer, another roommate. “It seemed like he was very young and amateurish.” The roommates rejected the offer out of hand. The work never got done. And they barely gave their landlord another tho... Link to the full article to read more