by Jeffrey Turk | Aug 27, 2016 | Landlord & Tenant, Property Managers
A recent court decision has placed property owners on notice that, at least in the eyes of the law, the adage “no harm—no foul” does not always apply. The facts of the case were not in dispute. The property owner had a lease provision which required a...
by Jeffrey Turk | Aug 27, 2016 | Landlord & Tenant, Property Managers
Warning: Smoking is not only dangerous to your health, but can also get you evicted from your home. So reads the new warning label which may need to be printed on cigarette packs after a recent housing court decision allowing a landlord to evict a tenant in a...
by Jeffrey Turk | Aug 27, 2016 | Landlord & Tenant, Property Managers
Any landlord that has ever been involved in an eviction case knows that the ultimate goal of the case is to have the court issue the coveted “Execution for Possession”. This simple piece of paper has the magical power of authorizing a sheriff or constable to forcibly...
by Jeffrey Turk | Aug 27, 2016 | Landlord & Tenant, Property Managers
I have become something of an expert on bed bugs. This was by no means a career ambition; I did not grow up wanting to know everything there was to know about bed bugs and would be happily ignorant about them today. But they have become a major problem for the...
by Jeffrey Turk | Aug 27, 2016 | Landlord & Tenant, Property Managers
We have all hard the adage, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. That was certainly the case for the manager of an ultra-luxury apartment building in downtown Boston, when an attractive, well-dressed, well-spoken young woman announced that she needed to...
