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Review of the MassLandlords rental forms by a Boston Housing Court attorney. September 2017. On September 18, Attorney Jordana Greenman gave a live review of the MassLandlords rental forms and shared her rental agreement best practices. Attorney Greenman is a title agent for First American Title Insurance Company and WFG,…
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MassLandlords Advisors have two important but non-operational goals. The reward for volunteering will be surprising and unexpected. Special Essay by Executive Director Doug Quattrochi I will never forget the time my third floor dropped ceiling collapsed. The tenant woke up, opened her bedroom door, and looked out at disaster. She…
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Risk is always an issue as a landlord, but the right insurance plan can help you to manage your risks. Mat Geffin from Webber & Grinell Insurance, will be educating us on insurance issues, such as: slips, trips, falls, dog breeds, and replacement costs. Executive Director Doug Quattrochi, will also…
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Join us for an evening of networking and discussing issues such as: pest control, eviction, tenant screening, and other topics of interest. Have a difficult tenant? Thinking about starting a project? Wondering about codes? The roundtable will have decades of experience on hand to answer any questions you may have!…
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We’ll be continuing the series “Best Practices” as we work to create a common rental application. Mind the date! We are usually the first Monday of the month, but we will be the second Monday due to the New Year’s Day holiday. Ron Bernard is an accomplished teacher and has…
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David Fleckner is an experienced property manager who’s had his fair share of tricky tenants. Make your property invinceable to the ‘free rent trick’ by learning David’s 5 things you don’t know about the sanitary code that could sink you. Ting Wong from Eastern Bank also be spoke about and…
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This is unprecedented: an attorney who represents tenants is coming to speak to us about what he looks for when building a case against a landlord. Attorney Joel Feldman of Heisler, Feldman, and McCormick, P.C. will be addressing Springfield landlords thanks to long-time MassLandlords.net/RHAGS supporter and landlord attorney Stanley Komack, who has…
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Attorney Garrett D. Lee of Mitcheson & Lee LLP, specializes in civil litigation and has a lot of experience in handling landlord tenant disputes. Attorney Lee educated us on how to reasonably accommodate prospective tenants who require service animals and how to reasonably modify your structure to accommodate the physically…
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“The landlord has been the most unpopular figure in all history. This is the one guy on whom all classes, races, and creeds unite in a common prejudice. I guess this goes way back to the feudal days and before, when the ‘landlord’ became a fixture in the minds of…
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Sheryl Chase, longtime RHAGS member and current President, will be stepping down no later than October 1. Chase Management Service, Inc. has grown quickly and Sheryl wishes to focus her time there. Please join us in thanking Sheryl for her service to MassLandlords.net/RHAGS. Russell Sabadosa will be standing in for…
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