I agree. When people jointly sign a lease they are "jointly and severally" liable for that lease, meaning that everyone who signed is jointly...

I agree with my colleagues. Generally, however, without an expert service provider, you cannot assume the tenant caused the issue, and even if they...

The words of the law governing this (https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartII/TitleI/Chapter186/Section15B) are "At or prior to the...

I agree with my colleague. Especially when it comes to commercial transactions (meaning someone in business selling to another person in business)...

Unfortunately, judgments for money against tenants are incredibly hard if not impossible to collect on. This is because unless the tenant has...

I agree with both of my colleagues here. Because this lease expired in June of last year you almost certainly just have a tenancy at-will here and...

You are conflating a couple of different issues here, some legal, some tax. For instance status as a 501 is a tax status, while whether you form an...

Unfortunately, the 12 months starts at the END of the case. It starts when you get judgment in your favor for the eviction, the court is then...

I recently had a meeting with a judge who informed me that the current trend in Massachusetts is to simply award the dog (as my colleague says as...

There is never a "right" to break a lease unless the lease itself contains one. If the lease doesn't let you break it with a fee, then the landlord...