Summary Of Chapter 1: A Case Study Of Ms. Larson's Medical Department

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1. Ms. Melody Larson (Ms. Larson) is a young psychologist, whom opened a small medical center with the intentions of taking advantage of an investment opportunity, and renting two or three medical offices to be able to afford the mortgage, maintenance and other related expenses. She developed innovative methods of working with children with speech development problems.
2. In January 2014, she found the ideal place which not only afforded her to open the medical center with space to rent offices, but also allowed her to invest in a property with potential to appraise in the near future.
3. In April 2014, Mr. Larson took title and renew the building.
4. In August 2014, Ms. Larson opened for business and by then she had already rented the spare
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On the weekend of April 4, 2015, the commercial plant opened, and within a week or two, Ms. Larson learned that her neighbor’s presence posed an unexpected problem. Delivery trucks were noisily coming and going, the activities disrupted her work, which relied upon a quiet atmosphere to help children concentrate as they went through therapeutic exercises. Nevertheless, since her patients did not complain, she never complained to her neighbor about the noise.
7. Another problem quickly emerged which affected considerably Ms. Larson’s business. As a result of the fermentation process and ventilation methods used by her neighbor to produce the sauce, Ms. Larson started getting complains from nearly all of her patients. They complained about this pungent sour smell coming from her neighbor’s factory.
8. In late July, Ms. Larson, was able to talk to Mr. Ferdinand Sahayko (Mr. Sahayko), whom was completely unsympathetic, and avoiding resolving the issue told Ms. Larson, that he never had a complaint in other factories his family owned in a period of forty-five years. He also added that his family had the right to use their property for business, just like her. He also stated that they selected an area that was zoned for industrial and commercial use, and they had made huge investment to retool the building with the necessary vats and other equipment; therefore, they were not going to give up their operations to satisfy her demands. He also commented that he was going to increase
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During the conversation Ms. Larson, in response to Ms. Sahayko allegations that at the end she would have to deal to noxious fumes and irritants with the arrival of other businesses, she tried to explained to Ms. Sahayko that there were signs that the area would soon be residential and the type of business that would come were more likely to be retail shopping centers and family oriented business, and that the fumes from his factory were highly unusual and not the usual exhaust fumes. Nevertheless, Mr. Sahayko stressed that his family would not alter their use of the property and told her that if she did not like the smell, shew could

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