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...
by Jeffrey Turk | Aug 27, 2016 | Landlord & Tenant
In years past, a person who failed to pay their debts was locked in chains and committed into the custody of a debtors’ prison to serve their sentence until their debt was repaid. During this period, the collection of judgments and other debts was a simple matter of...
by Jeffrey Turk | Aug 27, 2016 | Landlord & Tenant, Property Managers
By Michael Fentress Prior to my career as a Landlord-Tenant attorney, I represented the Department of Correction in actions seeking to keep the most dangerous sex offenders, or Sexually Dangerous Persons, in prison even after they had served and completed their...