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Fleet Bank under fire, critics question lending
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Yawu Miller
Bay State Banner
10-24-1996
Fleet Bank under fire, critics question lending.
Sonia Thomas admits she made a mistake buying her two-family Mattapan house. The water leaking in the den has forced her to move furniture ;into the front hallway and drape the floor with plastic. "It's not just a leak," she says wryly. "They ceiling is caving in."
Thomas, who would not give her real name for this story, cites the leaking roof as evidence of the shoddy workmanship ...
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