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Food and drink will be provided for all: Some catered items, some favorite pot-luck dishes courtesy of our board members. Please come and enjoy a relaxing evening with other members of our association. It is neither necessary nor expected to bring anything. However, if you have a particular specialty you would like to show off and share with the rest, please feel free to do so. As always, we are asking for non-perishable food items – canned goods, pasta, etc. – for donations to one of the local food pantries.

As we have in the past, there will be a drawing of various and assorted tool items purchased by our association. This year, for the first time – and just for fun, we will run a 50/50 raffle at $5.00 a chance.

All SWCLA members and their guests are invited. Non-members, and members of other landlord associations, please join the party for only $5.00 per person, or a pot-luck specialty to share.

We hope to see you. If you cannot make it, we wish you much joy for the Holidays.

Monday, December 4th

Meeting Agenda

• 6:00p Party
• 8:30p Doors close

Location

Southbridge Community Center (aka Casuabon Senior Center)
153 Chestnut St.
Southbridge, MA 01550

Food

• Catered Food
• Pot-luck

Pricing

Members and non-members are welcome.

• Members are admitted for free
• Non-members – $5 at the door

Membership options.

Please note: this event is run by volunteers at a partner association.

Tickets are not required. Members can just show up.

Rich Trifone, REALTOR and landlord, will be sharing his expertise on purchasing multifamilies. He will give advanced market statistics on market conditions greater Waltham.
Are property values out of alignment with rent levels? How should an investor proceed?
This is a must-see presentation for anyone actively in the market or thinking about it. Rich also has experience with hard money lending and will be bringing in a special additional guest speaker for us.

Dennis Coy, Senior Partner at Capital and Financial Centre, is a hard money lender. Dennis will be covering the whole spectrum of lending options, including leasing, sale / leasebacks, revolving lines of credit, purchase order financing, factoring, and private placements (aka hard money loans).

Please note the following correction: In a previous notice, Dennis was listed as a security camera expert. The security camera portion of the previous lineup has been replaced with Dennis’ hard money portion.

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Tuesday, December 6^th

Charles River Meeting Agenda

• 5:30pm Sign-in/Networking/Dinner
  • Buffet Dinner
• 6:30pm Charles River Manager’s Welcome and Local Issues Update
• 6:40pm Executive Director Doug Quattrochi with the MassLandlords Business Update
  • Member Minute – Any member can have the mic for 1 minute during the start of the meeting (introduce yourself, ask a questions, give words of wisdom related to our business)
• 7:00pm Rich Trifone, Purchasing Multifamilies in this Market
• 7:55pm Dennis Coy, Hard Money Lending
• 8:20pm Networking
• 9:00pm Doors Close

Location

Best Western Waltham (Food by Copper House Tavern)
380 Winter St. (Meeting room located just off the main hotel lobby)
Waltham, MA 02451

Parking

There is ample parking in the lot around the Best Western. Please enter through the main lobby and look for the MassLandlords signs.

Food

• Full Buffet Dinner
• Soda, Water, Coffee
• Dessert

*Please disclose any dietary restrictions to Alexis at agee@masslandlords.net and we will try to accommodate you.

Pricing

Non-members always welcome! Please prepay in advance to receive the discounted pricing. The venue requires this much notice for our reservation.

• Early-bird only until 11/27 at 12pm:
  • Non-members: $25.00
  • Members: $20.00 (log in before you register or you will see the non-member price)
• After Early bird or at the door:
  • Non-members: $30.00
  • Members: $25.00

Please note: this event is run by MassLandlords volunteers and staff.

This is part of the Waltham rental real estate networking and training series.

Many, many landlords are eligible to receive low-cost or no-cost refrigerators, boilers, insulation, and weather-stripping because their tenants are eligible for fuel assistance. Program participation is not required. This is not MassSave. Landlords who own 1-4 unit multifamilies are eligible.

Mary Knittle, Director of Energy Resources at the Worcester Community Action Council, Inc. will be presenting program details. These programs are available in Worcester, Auburn, Brookfield, Boylston, Charlton, Charlton City, Charlton Depot, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, Holden, Jefferson, Leicester, Cherry Valley, Rochdale, Millbury, North Brookfield, Oakham, Oxford, North Oxford, Paxton, Rutland, Southbridge, Spencer, Sturbridge, Fiskdale, Sutton, Manchaug, Warren, West Warren, Webster, West Boylston, and West Brookfield.

Do you have a Written Information Security Program? Are you compliant with MGL Chapter 93H and 201 CMR 17? Find out how you can prevent identify theft both for yourself and for your tenants, comply with the law, and make life easier for your company in a digital age. We’ll cover the fundamentals of data backup, password vaults, secure web browsing, Internet and hard drive encryption, email tracking, and WISP’s, and why anti-virus software has been made obsolete by anti-malware.

This strictly educational, no sales-pitch segment will be presented by Rick Porter, President of Cinch IT, Inc. Cinch IT is an information technology company with 23 reviews averaging a full five out of five stars. Cinch IT offers tech support, network security, backup and disaster recovery, website design, cloud computing, and legal compliance. Rick will be presenting slides prepared by MassLandlords designed to meet our educational objectives for attendees, and will be available for follow-up questions during networking before and after.

The American Red Cross Central MA Chapter is running a “Home Fire Safety Campaign.” MassLandlords members have already received hundreds of free smoke detectors, and ARC have thousands more to give away!

Susan Shaw of ARC Disaster Programming will close out our meeting by breifly explaining how the Home Fire Safety Campaign conducts tenant education, site-visits, and free battery-op detector installation. At the event, attendees will be able to register and schedule their property visits. You don’t want to miss out on this!

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Wednesday, December 13^th

Meeting Agenda

• 5:30pm Doors Open
• 5:45pm Socializing and Networking
• Network over drinks and appetizers
• Topics will be marked off by table for one-on-one help
• 6:15pm Buffet Dinner by The Vintage Grille
• 6:40pm MassLandlords Business Update and Member Minutes
• 7:00pm Rich Merlino Meeting Introduction
• 7:05pm Mary Knittle with No-cost/Low-cost Energy Programs
• 7:30pm Rick Porter – ID Theft
• 8:10pm Susan Shaw: Thousands of Free Smoke Detectors
• 8:25pm Networking
• 9:00pm Doors close

Location

Worcester Technical High School
1 Skyline Dr
Worcester, MA 01603

Food

• Cheese and crackers, sodas, water
• Buffet dinner and refreshments
• Desserts

Pricing

Please prepay in advance to receive the discounted pricing. The caterer requires this much notice for food orders. Non-members always welcome!

• Early-bird ends 12/04 @ 12pm:
• Non-members: $20.00
• Members: $13.50 (log in before you register or you will see the non-member price)
• Premium Members: No charge and no need to register
• After Early bird or at the door:
  • Non-members: $23
  • Members: $17
  • Premium Members: No charge and no need to register

Membership options.

Please note: this event is run by MassLandlords volunteers and staff.

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Come meet the judge at the buffet line before you face him at the bench! Judge Fields will be reviewing the top mistakes he sees landlords make. He will also be imparting words of wisdom that, if taken to heart, will make both your life and his better should you end up meeting in court. If a future case were to go badly you would have no one to blame but yourself for not learning when you had the chance. Don’t miss it!

Of equal and extreme importance is Donna Zundell, Chief Housing Specialist aka Mediator. Mediation is your last chance to resolve an eviction before you see the judge and all your sins are laid bare. Learn how you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by mediating.

This is a rare opportunity to learn from Housing Court Staff. Paid members are encouraged to submit questions to West@GoogleGroups.com prior to December 7. Questions may be taken from the audience. Discussing active cases will not be allowed.

Book early, this event may become standing-room only.

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Thursday, December 14^th

Meeting Agenda

• 5:30pm Socializing and Networking
• Cash bar
• 6:00pm Buffet dinner
• 6:40pm State-wide Business Update and Member Minutes
• 7:00pm Local Updates
• 7:05pm Legal Update
• 7:10pm Doug Quattrochi, Eviction Overview
• 7:20pm Judge Fields, Donna Zundell, Mediation and Trial at the Housing Court
• 8:30pm Networking
• 9:00pm Doors Close

Location

Twin Hills Country Club
700 Wolf Swamp Rd
Longmeadow, MA 01106

Food

• Hot Buffet Dinner
• Cash bar
• Hot Coffee & Tea
• Dessert

*If you have any dietary restrictions, please let us know as soon as possible so we can provide options for you.
 

Pricing

Please prepay at least 10 days in advance to receive the early bird discount. This also helps us order the right amount of food for the evening.
Members must log in to MassLandlords.net before trying to purchase a ticket at the member price.

• Early bird Discount ONLY UNTIL 12/04 @ 12pm:
  • Non-members: $32.00
  • Members: $26.00 (log in before you register or you will see the non-member price)
• After Early bird or at the door:
  • Non-members: $37.00
  • Members: $32.00

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Membership options.

Please note: this event is run by MassLandlords staff and volunteers.

Chris Brown of Edmund & Wheeler will be reviewing 1031 exchanges. This IRS regulation allows owners to depreciate their property, saving tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes, and then sell out and buy a new property without paying recapture tax. Everyone serious about rental property as an investment vehicle should understand the tight timelines involved. If you do it only once if your life, it will still save you $100,000.

John Enright will be reviewing the new lead paint regulations that take effect December 1. The cost of deleading is decreasing 40%, but the number of lawsuits might increase ten-fold. Don’t be the slowest zebra in the herd. Learn how possible it is to get your lead certificates before you become the target of increasing regulation and so-called “strict liability.”

Take Advantage of Our Complimentary Landlord Counselor Advising Sessions!

Landlord Counselor and Author of The Good Landlord, Peter Shapiro will be offering 15 minute advising appointments between 5:30pm and 6:30pm during this event. Advisors will be announced very soon! If you wish to schedule your appointment email Alexis at agee@masslandlords.net. Please note that in order to schedule an appointment, you must have a ticket for this event. Keep checking back for additions to our Advisor Lineup!

Peter Shapiro, Landlord Counselor and author of The Good Landlord, has been a counselor, mediator, trainer, and a small property owner himself for over 25 years. Peter can help you to strengthen tenancies, resolve issues over nonpayment, address other lease violation issues, and prepare if eviction is needed.

Monday, December 18^th

Meeting Agenda

• 5:30pm Registration, Socializing and Networking
• 6:15pm Buffet Dinner in the Venture Cafe
• 6:45pm Executive Director Doug Quattrochi with the MassLandlords Business Update
• 7:00pm John Enright New Lead Paint Regs
• 7:40pm Chris Brown, The Biggest Tax Savings Ever
• 8:15pm Networking
• 9:00pm Doors close

Location

Cambridge Innovation Center
1 Broadway (5th Floor)
Cambridge, MA 02142

Accessing from the T

• Exit the Kendall T stop on Main St.
• Cross to the side of Main St. with the Chipotle and walk up the street towards Broadway, passing the Chipotle on your left.
• You will then round the corner to the left and One Broadway will be across the street diagonally.
• Cross over Third St. and Broadway to arrive at One Broadway.

For all attendees Upon entering One Broadway, you will need to check in with the lobby security. You'll just need to show your ID and let them know you're going to the MassLandlords event in the 5th floor Venture Cafe.

Parking

Accessible by T and highway. Parking available in several garages for weekend rates. See CIC Directions for details. Pilgrim Parking has affordable rates and is a short walk from the venue, click here for details

Food

• Assorted Buffet (Vegetarian options available)
• Salad
• Beverages
• Desserts

*If you have any dietary restrictions, please let us know as soon as possible so we can try to accommodate you.*

Pricing

Non-members always welcome! Please prepay in advance to receive early-bird pricing. The caterer requires this much notice for food orders.

• Early-bird Discount only until 12/08 @ 12pm:
  • Non-members: $18.50
  • Members: $13.50 (log in before you register or you will see the non-member price)
• After Early bird or at the door:
  • Non-members: $22.00
  • Members: $18.00

Membership options.

Please note: this event is run by MassLandlords volunteers and staff.