If you plan to renovate, or if you don’t have deleading certificates for all your units, you need to attend this presentation. Both lead-safe renovation and deleading are required (few exceptions apply). Price for getting an RRP fine: $37,500; for telling a family with children your unit is not deleaded: $50,000. But on the other hand, having lead certificates will allow you to charge increased rent, with lower risk, and obtain higher resale value (an average of $10,000/unit).
Our Deleading Overview will cover:
Medical/economic/social reasons why lead is a problem for society
The reasons why landlords are looked at as the biggest lead exposure
MA laws and regulations that establish liability, interim control, and full compliance
Federal RRP laws requiring similar care during renovations
How owners and contractors can undergo training to do some of these things themselves
Where to see who’s licensed to inspect, delead, and renovate
This part of the presentation will be given by John Risk of JHR Environmental, a veteran MassLandlords speaker and highly rated service provider.
John Risko of JHR Environmental will be Speaking
Have you seen our Charles River volunteer website? Market data available on rent levels for Waltham and surrounding areas. We encourage you to also take the poll on your current views of the rental market. Use the “Contact Us” form to request a login at crrha.org
MassLandlords offers attendees of directly managed events a “No Sales Pitch” guarantee. If a guest speaker offers services, their presentation will not discuss pricing, promotions, or reasons why you should hire them. We do not permit speakers to pay for or sponsor events. Guest speakers are chosen for their expertise and willingness to present helpful educational content. Your purchase of an event ticket sustains our nonprofit model.
Wednesday, May 1st
Charles River Meeting Agenda
6:00pm Sign-in/Networking
Networking draws from Waltham, Newton, Weston, Watertown, Wellesley, Wellesley Hills, Lincoln, Dover, Arlington, Belmont, and the western ends of Cambridge and Boston.
6:10pm Pizza and sodas provided
6:40pm Executive Director Doug Quattrochi with the MassLandlords Business Update
Member Minutes – Any member can have the mic for 60 seconds (introduce yourself, ask a question, share words of wisdom, etc.)
Public parking lot behind Village Bank near corner of Adams and Watertown Streets (<0.1 miles).
Public parking lot at Bridge St and Linwood Ave (0.2 miles).
Food
Pizza
Soda, Water
Please feel free to bring a dinner that meets your dietary goals/restrictions
Pricing
Open to the public. Membership is not required! Seating is limited to 25. If tickets are active, seats are available. This location credit card and check only.
Learn how Housing Court works before you start an eviction. Clerk Magistrate Nick Moudios will be imparting words of wisdom that, if taken to heart, will make both your life and his better should you end up in court. If a future case were to go badly you would have no one to blame but yourself for missing this event.
The Clerk Magistrate will be bringing one of the housing court team from the Central Division of the Housing Court, Assistant Chief Housing Specialist Joe LePore. Housing Specialists help you mediate your agreement for binding judgment. We will be asking about trials, mediation, the court services center, and limited assistance representation. There’s a lot to Housing Court, and a lot of options to help you protect your rights of ownership.
Central Division Housing Court Clerk Magistrate
Have you seen our Leave Stuff, Take Stuff Table?
Market your business, pick up handouts, give away an old doorknob. Everything goes on our first-come, first-served display table at all our events. Please bring business cards, brochures, coupons. And feel free to pick up your own uncollected marketing materials at the end. Everything not claimed end-of-event may be chucked.
“No Sales Pitch” Guarantee
MassLandlords offers attendees of directly managed events a “No Sales Pitch” guarantee. If a guest speaker offers services, their presentation will not discuss pricing, promotions, or reasons why you should hire them. We do not permit speakers to pay for or sponsor events. Guest speakers are chosen for their expertise and willingness to present helpful educational content. Your purchase of an event ticket sustains our nonprofit model.
Wednesday, May 8th
Meeting Agenda
5:30pm Sign-in/Networking
Networking draws from Worcester, Shrewsbury, Millbury, Auburn, Leicester, Paxton, Holden, West Boylston, Boylston, Grafton, Upton, Northbridge, Sutton, Oxford, Charlton, Spencer, Oakham, Rutland, Princeton, Clinton, and Sterling.
6:15pm Buffet Dinner by The Vintage Grille
6:40pm MassLandlords Business Update and Member Minutes
Member Minutes – Any member can have the mic for 60 seconds (introduce yourself, ask a question, share words of wisdom, etc.)
There is ample free parking in the first lot you see, in the covered garage to your left, on top of the garage (entrance further down road), and around the back of the school
Food
Cheese and crackers, sodas, water, coffee, decaf
Hot buffet dinner, incl. salad, rolls
Cookies, brownies, and/or blondies
*Dietary restrictions: purchase an early-bird ticket and email hello@masslandlords.net, we will accommodate you.
Pricing
Open to the public. Membership is not required!
Door:
Public: $24
Members: $19
Early-bird, reserve seven days prior by 12pm:
Public: $22
Members: $14
Premium Members: No charge and no need to register
Extra Credit
First time attendees: Join as a member before leaving the event, your public ticket will be credited toward membership.
Members: Bring a first-time attendee who joins at the event, your membership will be extended by one month free. No limit.
This event is operated by MassLandlords staff. Check in with your MassLandlords ID card.
We’re headed north to better serve our Holyoke members and also hopefully meet some new faces from the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce. This event agenda has been re-ordered based on speaker availability.
Part I: Meet the New Clerk Magistrate, Western Division
We’ll be welcoming Michael Doherty, newly confirmed Clerk Magistrate, Western Division of the Housing Court. Clerk Magistrate Doherty has worked his entire career in housing. He started in property management, became Assistant Building Commissioner for the City of Holyoke, and worked in the Massachusetts Trial Court for 15 years before becoming the Western Division Clerk Magistrate.
Note that David Cotter, Springfield’s Deputy Director of Housing Code Enforcement, was previously scheduled to present. This topic has been moved to June. The Clerk Magistrate has been kind enough to agree to review the residential state sanitary code as part of his presentation.
Part III: Getting Started with Mixed Use Property
We’d like to branch out and explore how we can house both a business and some residents in the same building. For many of us with a need for a small office, purchasing a dedicated commercial space is unaffordable. But with residents above to pay some of the rent, suddenly a variety of buildings can start to make sense. We’ll start with what “triple net” means and take it from there. We’ll also talk about how to identify a downtown that’s headed in the right direction, or whether it even matters.
This part of the presentation will be a moderated discussion between experienced mixed-use landlords and a broker. Our broker will be Mark DiFranco of DiFranco Realty.
Clerk Magistrate Michael Doherty will be discussing the State Sanitary Code and other Eviction MattersGetting started with mixed-use property, image CC BY-SA Doug Kerr
MassLandlords offers attendees of directly managed events a “No Sales Pitch” guarantee. If a guest speaker offers services, their presentation will not discuss pricing, promotions, or reasons why you should hire them. We do not permit speakers to pay for or sponsor events. Guest speakers are chosen for their expertise and willingness to present helpful educational content. Your purchase of an event ticket sustains our nonprofit model.
Thursday, May 9th
RHAGS Meeting Agenda
5:30pm Sign-in and Networking
Cash bar
Networking draws from Springfield, West Springfield, Holyoke, Chicopee, Ludlow, Wilbraham, East Longmeadow, Longmeadow, Agawam, Southwick, Southampton, Easthampton, Northampton, Westhampton, Hadley, South Hadley, Granby, Amherst, Belchertown, Ware, Palmer, Warren, Monson, and Hampden.
6:00pm Buffet dinner
6:40pm State-wide Business Update and Member Minutes
7:00pm Local Updates
7:05pm Legal Update
7:10pm Meet the New Clerk Magistrate, State Sanitary Code
7:50pm Mixed-use Property
8:30pm Networking
9:00pm Doors Close
Location
You can just about taste the whiskey bread pudding reading this event listing:
The Masachusetts Commission Again Discrimination (MCAD) will be presenting on the differences between service, companion and emotional support animals. Learn the legal rights of tenants and the crucial information to help us ensure they are not being discriminated against; intentionally or not.
Our Events are Held at Monty Tech
Thursday, May 9thth
NWCLA Meeting Agenda
Visit nwcla.com for any last-minute updates or changes.
6:45pm Dinner and Networking
Networking draws from 25 towns including Fitchburg, Gardner, Leominster, Athol, Holden, Ayer, Orange, Ashburnham, Spencer, Ashby, Lunenburg, Townsend, Westminster, Princeton, Sterling, Lancaster, Shirley, Groton, Pepperell, Winchedon, Templeton, and Hubbardston.
There is ample free parking beside the school. Do not park along the fence where the busses park. Do not park in any of the handicap spots unless you have the proper handicap parking sticker.
Food
Dinner by Happy Jack’s Cantina Grille from N. Main St. in Leominster.
Pricing
Membership not required! Open to the public.
Early-bird ends seven days prior @ 12pm:
Public and Members other than NWCLA: $15
MassLandlords.net/NWCLA members: pay annual dues, then free
After Early bird or at the door:
Public and Members other than NWCLA: $20
MassLandlords.net/NWCLA members: pay annual dues, then free
We’ll be hosting Andrew Piscatelli, Director of the Framingham Housing Authority to discuss all things Section 8. How does the program work? What do inspections entail? Do well screened Section 8 renters really stay longer than average?
Section 8 Can Work Very Well if you Know What You are Doing
Tuesday, May 14th
MetroWest Property Owners Association Meeting Agenda
Solar offers an opportunity to increase cash flow on existing buildings without additional units or rent-raises. But what does a clear-headed analysis show? Can solar be cashflow positive? How can it pay if renters get all the electrical savings?
Thanks to the new SMART solar credit program, which replaces SREC auctions, solar panel systems can now be used to generate cashflow directly. And for landlords interested in revising their utility arrangements with renters, such systems can be monetized at market utility rates without assuming the liability of “utilities included.”
SMART credit blocks are closing depending on the size of your intended system and location. This presentation will have relevance for Eversource and National Grid customers in Medford, Malden, Everett, Chelsea, Somerville, Cambridge, Arlington, Boston, and many other places. (Belmont owners and others with a local municipal electric utility are regrettably not always included, check with our speaker before purchasing a ticket.)
Part I: Solar Financial Overview, Incentives, and Cashflow Options
This part of the presentation will be given by Frank Urro of NRGTree. NRGTree is not a solar installer, they are a solar quoting company focusing on the financial aspect of solar and referrals to installers. They wanted us to know that no house is too small to diversify income streams to include some solar.
Part II: Monetizing Solar in Rentals
This part of the presentation is MassLandlords repertoire and will be given by MassLandlords staff.
NRGTree, Frank Urro presentingSolar isn’t just for Single Families
Market your business, pick up handouts, give away an old doorknob. Everything goes on our first-come, first-served display table at all our events. Please bring business cards, brochures, coupons. And feel free to pick up your own uncollected marketing materials at the end. Everything not claimed end-of-night may be chucked.
“No Sales Pitch” Guarantee
MassLandlords offers attendees of directly managed events a “No Sales Pitch” guarantee. If a guest speaker offers services, their presentation will not discuss pricing, promotions, or reasons why you should hire them. We do not permit speakers to pay for or sponsor events. Guest speakers are chosen for their expertise and willingness to present helpful educational content. Your purchase of an event ticket sustains our nonprofit model.
Tuesday, May 21st
Cambridge Meeting Agenda
5:30pm Sign-in and Networking
Networking draws from Cambridge, Boston, Somerville, Arlington, Belmont, Watertown, and Malden.
6:00pm Buffet Dinner
6:40pm Executive Director Doug Quattrochi with the MassLandlords Business Update
Member Minutes – Any member can have the mic for 60 seconds (introduce yourself, ask a question, share words of wisdom, etc.)
ID required 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.
Accessing from the T
Exit the Kendall T stop on Main St.
Cross to the northeast side of Main St. with the Marriott and Chipotle and walk down the street away from Cambridge towards the Longfellow Bridge to Boston.
Cross through the plaza with the five-foot high metal globe; One Broadway is the building undergoing construction across the next street.
Cross over Broadway to arrive at One Broadway.
Parking
Just $10 at Pilgrim Parking, enter after 4pm, a two-minute walk from One Broadway, click here for details. Be careful, some garages are $30. Accessible by T (red line Kendall Square) and highway. For additional parking options see CIC Directions.
Food
Buffet, incl. salad and rolls
Water, sodas
Cookies
*Dietary restrictions: purchase an early-bird ticket and email hello@masslandlords.net, we will accommodate you.
Pricing
Open to the public. Membership is not required!
Door:
Public: $24
Members: $19
Early-bird, reserve seven days prior by 12pm:
Public: $22
Members: $14
Nametags are printed for early-bird public, early-bird member, and premium members only.
Extra Credit
First time attendees: Join as a member before leaving the event, your public ticket will be credited toward membership.
Members: Bring a first-time attendee who joins at the event, your membership will be extended by one month free. No limit.
The Berkshire County Sheriff’s Department will be discussing Housing Court, eviction, and notices. Also, Western Division Housing Court Assistant Clerk Magistrate Laura Fenn will be speaking, along with a Housing Specialist.
Our Events are Held at Zucchini’s Restaurant in Pittsfield
Tuesday, May 21st
Berkshire County Meeting Agenda
6:00pm Networking
Networking draws from Great Barrington, Lee, Lenox, Stockbridge, Pittsfield, Lanesborough, Cheshire, New Ashford, Adams, North Adams, Clarksburg, Williamstown, Florida, Savoy, Hancock, Dalton, Windsor, Hinsdale, Peru, Richmond, Washington, West Stockbridge, Becket, Tyringham, Alford, Otis, Monterey, Sandisfield, New Marlborough, Sheffield, Egremont, and Mount Washington.
