Tenants, toilets and trash." that's how thomas Donovan describes his life as a landlord. So he unloaded the hassles and sold his pair of three-story apartment buildings, near the New England Patriots football stadium in Foxboro, Mass. With the real estate market in the Boston area remaining strong, Donovan, a retired telephone company manager, knew he could get a good price. Also, he had contracted sciatica, which produces intense pain in the lower back Lugging garbage pails had lost whatever appeal it once held. "What if I came down with some other medical thing?" wondered Donovan, who turns 60 this summer. "I didn't want to leave operations to my wife and kids."
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