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Great Shaker mes Sh Ho Paying It Forward The happy residents of this beautifully appointed two-family rental on Newell Road are the beneficiaries of the idealism of the owners. The family connection doesn't hurt either. d e a l i s m at 25 often seems naive to the older and wiser. So it's a welcome surprise when an idealistic desire persists and becomes a reality, like it did for long-time Shaker residents Linda Rae and Drew Hertz. In 1989, Rae and Hertz, a Shaker Heights High School graduate, were both studying at Case Western Reserve University - Rae, working on her master's in electrical engineering, and Hertz, attending medical school - when they found a rental on the second story of a house on Chagrin Boulevard. Money was tight and the owner was sympathetic. "He told us that someone rented h im a nice apartment at a decent rent when he was young and he always wanted to do the same," explains Rae, now 50 and a worldwide commercial president at Tektronix in Solon. Rae and Hertz lived in the apartment for six years. And the kindness of their landlord left an impression. "We thought we'd like to do the same thing," says Rae. "We always thought we'd get a rental property and t ry to pay it forward and rent to students. We wanted to give someone a nice place to live with a decent rent in Shaker." The notion stayed with Rae and Hertz as they moved to a home on Sherrington Road and then to Brighton Road, where they live now. Then the convergence of need and opportunity presented itself in the summer of 2014, when they became the owners of a well-appointed two-family rental on Newell Road in Lomond. By Jennifer Kuhel | Photography by Kevin G. Reeves 30 SHAKERONLINE.COM | WINTER 2016


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