Letter from the Executive Director for September 2017
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September marks the start of our 2017-2018 event season. We and our partner groups are putting on eight events this month: six regular monthly meetings, a crash course, and our first ever policy forum.
MassLandlords’ mission is to create better rental housing by helping new, current, and prospective owners run profitable, compliant, and quality businesses. A major piece of this is appropriate policy advocacy. With our policy forum, to be held at the beautiful Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center on September 23, we are taking our first steps to organize. Part of our efforts will be paid lobbying, but the balance will be grassroots support from members. Please buy a ticket if you have interest.
We are looking to a future when MassLandlords will have a hand in promoting or organizing one event every business day. There are roughly 20 business days in a month, and 20 locations across the Commonwealth where owners, managers, and service providers meet. We hope all groups will come onboard.
Over the summer we have had conversations with four groups about starting with MassLandlords. We are working to customize our offering for them and to help them plan to manage any transition smoothly. New groups are waiting for their chance, and for the first time we have regrettably asked new groups to wait so that we can do a good job onboarding the ones who have already started the process.
Our quarterly goals for 2017 were new rental forms, updated message boards, an updated service provider directory, and a rent collection service. We missed our message board goal, and are probably going to redefine our goals in terms of other functions. Many events have come up, most notably the Fred Basile Supreme Judicial Court Case, that have distracted us from these new features. Suffice it to say that we have more opportunities than we can pursue, and that we endeavor always to do the “easiest, highest impact” things first.
Overall, we are on track towards our goal of fully staffing our association. You could help by bringing a friend to an event. It’s a great way to see what we’re all about.
Thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
Doug Quattrochi
hello@masslandlords.net
