As a part year resident who filed via FreeTaxUSA, I got my MA refund within about 4 weeks.

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$70-$80k is more like analyst in corporate. If you want to make that (or more) just work in a consulting company. Also you don’t have 3 BAs, that’s 3 majors.

You can certainly live on $50k if you get a couple of roommates. MIT postdocs are paid that much. Also live close to the T so you don’t need a car.

Still cheaper than NYC (but with worse/more expensive food).

The MBTA is actively in shambles, and at various times train routes are being replaced with bus shuttles.

You basically need to brew a pot of coffee/tea, and digest:

https://www.mbta.com/alerts/subway

Before making real plans.

Unfortunately, this is the state of the Bay State. I also don't have my arms around how exhaustive this URL is from a timeline perspective - nothing for April is seemingly cited, but does that honestly mean April won't have any of these planned service outages, or just that they haven't been scheduled yet?

Fun fact, WHDH's sister station in Miami, WSVN, is a Fox affiliate on channel 7. But even they don't call themselves Fox 7, apparently.

If they were measuring local snowfall in dunkscups, now that would be something! :)

This is not really true: a Notice to Quit is not required when a lease ends. https://masslegalhelp.org/housing/lt1-chapter-12-receiving-proper-notice "If your lease has an option to renew and you fail to renew it, your landlord does not need to send you a notice to quit if she wants you out at the end of your lease. In this case, the day after your lease ends, your landlord can immediately file papers in court and begin an eviction case without giving you a notice to quit."

What about case managers or social workers with a strong knowledge of housing law? When moving out of my last place, my landlord asked if I was a lawyer based on the email I wrote.

i guess i understood that unless i'm living with a romantic partner, it's roommates forever.

A notable exception is what we're discussing for the future in Boston.

> The petition would also provide new tenant protections, including certain provisions protecting tenants from no fault evictions, which landlords have commonly used to clear out buildings for higher-paying renters.

You’re making it seem like being a landlord is the easiest thing to do. It’s not easy when you’re just starting. It’s okay to use a realtor to help with the process.

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Oh fuck off. Please continue to drag us "forward" with rents spiraling out of control. 1 bedroom for $4k when??

I can't stand this fucking argument. As someone looking for an apartment to rent, it is fucking ridiculous to get mad that people who already have an apartment will have their rent stabilized. such a dogshit attitude. Yeah, this make it harder for me to find an apartment but at least people get to currently afford theirs without having to always look over their shoulder waiting for an insane rent increase.

I just genuinely don't know what most people are going to do. I just don't know. Everything is being built too slowly and being scooped up by rental conglomerates who can charge whatever they want because people NEED houses.

Last I checked, a record high of 50% of millennials are living with their parents.

cool we'll just chill out for ten years waiting for that i guess

Day one.

Everyone is always wrong except you.

So it’s kinda weird how you the one who is so bitchy and grumpy…I’d think all of your success would leave you less irritable.

Yup. My parents retired in 2022 and moved to the Tampa area. They complained about how it wasn’t as cheap as they were lead to believe, but they conveniently forgot about mentioning the killing they made when selling their house in Hanover, tho.

How would they enforce this?

Not true. https://www.tenantresourcecenter.org/nonrenewal_reasons

"Generally (with a few notable exceptions, below), landlords and tenants do not have to give a reason for choosing not to renew a lease."

Prepayment of first month's rent to be refunded if the application is denied is not uncommon.

Its to prevent people from applying to multiple places and make sure they are serious.

I think $1800 will still get you a shitty studio in Brighton

Edit: lol, nope. I just checked the shitty Brighton studio I lived in when I moved here is 2017. $2000/month for 455 sq ft, original 1960s features, and no amenities. At least there’s no broker fee.

that must be a joke...

$7.25/hr in my home state in the south. I looked at houses in my little college hometown and it's $200k-$300k for anything halfway decent. I sold my house there for $85k in late 2016 for perspective. Rents are more than double what they were. I realize even the new prices sound cheap as fuck, but there are very few jobs that pay that kind of money down there outside of O&G work, both of which are feast or famine.

Amen

Policies like these generally require cause for an eviction or for you to be removing the unit from the market entirely long term (such as moving into it, converting it to a condo and selling it, etc).

Otherwise, the existing tenant is allowed to renew their lease forever as long as they can pay the rent w/the yearly increases.

Which is to say - you can't evict or otherwise force out the current tenant just to go get a new one at a higher rent or one you like better.

Note that you have identified one of the other aspects - landlords may get more selective about tenants (legally or not) when they have fewer tools to get rid of annoying ones.