Some businesses do not merely bend the rules. They build a business model around hoping consumers and tenants do not know the rules exist. That is especially true in the overlap between landlord-tenant law, debt collection, and Housing Court. A landlord obtains or claims a debt. A property manager tries to prosecute a case. A…
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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