Attorney Shivick discusses 5 More Things Your Landlord Doesn’t Want you to Know: Tenant Rights Under Massachusetts Law. Nothing in this video is intended as a substitute for consulting with an attorney. Nothing in this video is to be constued as legal advice.
Read moreThe City Notified Me To Evict My Tenant, What Do I Do?
If you received a notice from a city or municipality in Massachusetts stating you must evict your tenant for violation of Massachusetts law such as criminal activity – you may be scared or confused or both or neither – but you still need to take action to avoid liability of your own accord. The municipality…
Read moreEviction Case: Timeline In Massachusetts
The Massachusetts tenant has a right to an eviction case per case law and M.G.L. c.186 and c.239, except for rare circumstances like a police raid – covered instead by M.G.L. c.139 s.19. Merely changing the locks or using other “self-help” means for eviction will likely result in the tenant winning money from the landlord and…
Read moreCan a Massachusetts Landlord Force You Out? Constructive Eviction and Tenant Rights Massachusetts
Not every eviction begins with a notice to quit. Sometimes the landlord does not file a summary process case. Sometimes there is no constable, no court date, and no execution. Sometimes the landlord does something more cowardly and more chaotic: the landlord makes the apartment so difficult, unsafe, unlivable, or intolerable that the tenant leaves….
Read moreMA Tenant Moving Out After Tenancy: How to Protect Yourself Under Massachusetts Law
Moving out of a Massachusetts apartment should be simple: pack your things, clean the unit, return the keys, and get your security deposit back. But too often, the end of a tenancy becomes the beginning of a dispute. A landlord claims the tenant failed to give proper notice. A security deposit is withheld for vague…
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