2021 Elections

Voting opened on December 9, 2021. Voting closes December 21 at midnight (December 22 early morning).

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MassLandlords Annual Business Meeting and Annual Elections

Electronic Ballot

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Question One: Director

Thank you to Russell Sabadosa for serving on our Board of Directors. The 2022 Board of Directors will consist of the following individuals:

Through 2026: To Be Determined by this Ballot
Through 2025: Steffen Landrum-Alves; 2024: Michele Kasabula; 2023: Alec Bewsee; 2022: Rich Merlino

Nominees had the option of running on name recognition alone or submitting a biography and vision statement.

Allyson Gray

Biography

Allyson Gray of East Boston is a MassLandlords member, property rights supporter, crash course graduate, and regular event attendee.

Personal Statement:

I believe education is central to my success in the rental business. I manage a total of 23 rental units. I have been in the rental business for 45 years, but I am not a real estate broker or an attorney. However, my rental business has benefited from the education I pursued. With the training provided by IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management), I was awarded the ARM designation (Accredited Residential Manager) and I became a better manager of my properties. I have never stopped learning. There is so much to keep up with, from what is the best flooring, to how to deal with a hoarder, to how to navigate in the Covid world, etc.

MassLandlords is and should continue to be both educator and lobbyist. It provides education courses for landlords, and the opportunity to talk with other landlords whether on Zoom or in person. MassLandlords also provides a fee-based advice service that is needed. The plan for three levels of certification is another education-based program that benefits our members and the world of renters. We landlords need MassLandlords to become a major player in working with legislators to write bills that best meet the needs of both landlords and tenants.

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Sanjiv Reejhsinghani

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Sanjiv Reejhsinghani of Springfield is a MassLandlords member, property rights supporter, crash course graduate, a Certified Massachusetts Landlord (cML Level 1), and regular event attendee.

Personal Statement:

My name is Sanjiv Reejhsinghani, and I have been attending MassLandlords events consistently, and almost every month, for the last 7-plus years. I am a certified Massachusetts Landlord (cML Level 1), MassLandlords Crash Course graduate, and a recent property rights supporter. I am a real estate/landlord tenant attorney, as well as a real estate broker, practicing in the Springfield (western Massachusetts) area.

As a property manager to several properties, from condominium units to single-family homes, I have immersed myself both in the legal and practical aspects of being a good landlord, and I have worked diligently to to perfect my skill set in this regard, especially with regards to compliance with tenant issues, both legal and non-legal, in a post-Covid rental marketplace. I also sit on the Board of Trustees of a few different condominium associations (HOAs) in western Massachusetts.

Additionally, I am also an active member of the Western Massachusetts Real Estate Investors group (WMREI), for which I have served as a guest lecturer, and have also attended Boston Real Estate Investors Association (BREIA) meetings. I have litigated cases in the Western Division Housing Court, and I understand the nuances of landlord-tenant law to the degree that I feel my general knowledge base could benefit the organization. I am also licensed with the Commonwealth as moderate-risk de-leading contractor.

I believe that, as landlords, we have a collective duty to distribute our expertise in order to allow our membership to better itself via a community of shared experiences and exchanges. Many landlords may not have the financial resources to seek professional advice and support, which is why it is essential that we continue to advance the best intentions, and best efforts, of all landlords via the dissemination of best practices, and other learnings, within the MassLandlords community.

I believe that we can better streamline information via the implementation of a MassLandlords smartphone app. Additionally, I believe that MassLandlords should offer more programming and lectures around tax strategies with rental income properties, as well as other tax-saving strategies (1031 Exchanges, etc.). I also believe the MassLandlords Legal Helpline should be more widely implemented via the offering of free consultations for first-time users of the service.

Additionally, I believe that part of the vision, and future goal, of MassLandlords is to get as many landlord voices in front of as many important stakeholders as possible at the state level, including elected state senators, state representatives, as well as judges in the Housing Courts and District Courts of the Commonwealth. While some judges have attended our programs, I believe MassLandlords can improve as an organization by allowing landlords the opportunity to interact with their respective locally-elected officials who create, and amend, statutory housing law, amongst other public policy.

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Patrick Sullivan

Biography

Patrick Sullivan of Spencer is a MassLandlords member, event networking host moderator, and Certified Massachusetts Landlord™ Level One.

Personal Statement:

My name is Patrick, I grew up dirt poor in South Boston. I even keep a framed food stamp on my desk now as a reminder. I’ve always spent my life doing things differently, at 16 I quit high school. At 18 I sold my first company to a major tech firm all the way being told I should stay on the traditional path. I spent the majority of my life working in various forms of IT eventually working as a Sr Systems administrator for Oracle as the last ‘job’ I would ever have. I began real estate mostly flipping and occasionally holding, always trying to find the worst places that needed the most work seeing the hidden value. Years later I became a Realtor and started a large team, after a while, I realized that wasn’t for me and I enjoyed the actual real estate part of it and went back to just doing it for myself. My IT experience makes me see things all a bit differently. When I see a problem deep analysis begins, complex spreadsheets are devised. Many options and avenues are analyzed until the best solution is brought to light. This thought process eventually led me to the two things I do most now, running sober homes and property management. Both of these avenues in real estate were ones that I focused on as they had the most opportunity and there were more people doing things wrong than right with them. I always strive to improve everything, being told I can’t do something just makes me tear it apart and rebuild in some way that not only do I accomplish it but I’ve also somehow made it into a product and now selling it to others.

I see MassLandLords really as the center point for landlords. With political uncertainty on the rise, crazy new laws being proposed, and countless existing laws so convoluted that even people that have been landlords for 30 years are still doing some things incorrectly and don’t even know it. The organization has become stronger every year with better clarity and vision as to its mission and its members. The coming years seem like they may be the most important ones since MassLandLords began. After everything Covid19 brought upon us and the proposals to ‘help’ renters has shown us that individual voices simply aren’t loud enough and we can really only be heard as a group over the overwhelming size of tenants rights groups. Seeing the ambition of how MassLandLords responds to issues is really what has made me want to be more of a part of it. In the future, we will need to become more active in political efforts. Continuing to help new landlords to understand the business and its complexities both in the state laws as well common tenant issues. Through further effort, we will continue to grow and refine the resources that have been developed as well as continue to identify and develop more needed resources for everyone. A wealth of information has been developed in the past years and it will continue to do so through the efforts of all those involved in the organization.

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Voting opened on December 9, 2021.

Question Two: Good Neighbor (Optional)

Recognize a member of the public who has gone above and beyond to create better rental housing or better public policy.

There are no Good Neighbor Nominees for 2022.

Question Three: Member Survey (Optional)

Rate these services of MassLandlords on a scale of 1 “strongly dislike current offering” to 5 “strongly value current offering”. “Indifferent” would be a 2 or 3.

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