Finding good tenants is the CORE of your business as a landlord.

Tenant screenings gets far less “time consuming” if you take care you your tenants, have near-zero turnover, and have a waitlist of folks who want to live in your properties.

You sound like you are 0 for 3 on those things, so yes, please keep using a realtor to help you place new tenants every year as you burn though the ones you have.

Seconded. I live quite comfortably here on a salary similar to OP's, but I need to live with two roommates and ditch the car to make it happen. For me, that's no big deal (in fact, I prefer to live with others and had been wanting to ditch the car for a while before moving here). However, I certainly understand that those choices aren't for everyone, and someone who feels they need to live alone and with a car would have a really rough time getting by here on $50k.

That's about how much cream and sugar I have them add before the coffee.

The hotels downtown and right next to Fenway park have a lot of character. It's just a cool experience to be right in the city. However, the T is it's own experience. Sort of like riding the subway in New York. You gotta do it at least once in your life!

I disagree with your premise and I disagree with your conclusion even if your premise is correct.

As for your premise, just because the government allows something to happen "up to 10%" does not mean that those who make the decisions will make it happen "at 10%."

As for your conclusion even if your premise is correct, the goals involved are not statistical—relating to the mean—in my view. Instead, the goals are based on preventing individual acts of (what seems to be) housing injustice where families have their rent increased by 100% or more by new owners.

please touch grass

It doesn’t sound like they’re asking you to pay a brokers fee yet. Most apartments will ask you to put down a deposit with your application to make sure you’re serious. It sounds perfectly normal.

Hah! We found the devil! The right answer is there isn’t one good realtor.

Yea, I was so confused by those numbers...

I can tell you have some good scratch off stories

You’re working with the wrong realtors. In the end there’s good/bad landlords, realtors and tenants.

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"could"

Nothing has shown that it's going to dry up. Still insane levels of demand even with the price + rate increases.

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Submitted fed, ma & ri on I believe the 4th? Got ri back a week later, got federal on the 22 (took longer because of child credit) and ma the 24th (also took longer because I had to upload proof of change of address)

Depends. Sometimes the state is quick, and the fed lags behind. Could be a week. Could be 6 weeks

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Looking at price history practically always sours me on buying a house. I love paying a 40% markup just because I'm buying now instead of a few years ago.

This guy reddits.

So the timing of this article, especially given its author has nothing to do with the timing of this article from yesterday? Gotcha.

You are moving with your partner - what is their contribution to the move?

Do you have any debt, are you trying to bring a car?

I personally don’t think it would be a good time, but there’s another recent thread where there’s a dude that will tell you you’ll live your best life on that salary.

If rent stabilization at a max of 10% per year is implemented and in fact incentivizes all landlords to raise rents by 10% per year, that will make things a lot worse for even people in stabilized apartments. 10% is substantially higher than the mean year-on-year rent increase.

paging /u/africanbiotech for the affordable housing hookup

I’ve done it a lot. It’s a ton of fun. Just have some awareness about the fact that youre alone. Don’t do tree runs or empty slopes on the far end of the mountain.

> ...I would expect that the timing of this article with...

It's an opinion piece. It's not an article.

> I am somehow devoid of critical thought in your eyes due to my word choice.

I don't think you're devoid of critical thought. But based on your words, you don't seem to recognize the distinction between an opinion piece appearing in the Globe by the CEO of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board and the opinion of the Globe.