Do I need the permit for green crabs?

The permit is not needed to take, retain or land green crabs as they are an inedible invasive species. However, state law requires individuals hold an authorization from DMF in order to harvest green crabs. To obtain this free authorization, please contact Kerry Allard for an LOA or more information at (617) 626-1633 or kerry.allard@mass.gov.

I agree there’s risk to it, and you should always shop your rates around to see if there’s a better deal. In our case, everyone our realtor introduced us to turned out to be excellent and fairly priced and especially when it came to tradespeople, it was a great help to be personally introduced since like nobody is scheduling new projects for six months or a up to a year from now unless you have an in. If you can get a referral from someone you personally know and trust, that’s always the best way. I wouldn’t have gone with just anyone I found on Google even if they were well reviewed. Ask your coworkers or extended family for introductions!

Definitely call the dmf offices in Gloucester or New Bedford. Don't call the Boston office, they're in the process of closing it. Ask to talk to someone in permitting if you get shifted to another line, calls that don't get answered on main line ring everyone's phone so they get answered.

You might have gotten lost in the shuffle because they just shifted to a new permitting system and everyone is still catching up.

Maui Restaurant in Brockton is fun

Get pre approved before you visit homes. There’s no point in seeing what you can’t buy.

I'd say actually call the New Bedford office and ask if they know anything about delays. They're usually the most responsive and helpful.

As someone from trashy Rhode Island, I gotta say that’s some pretty beautiful trash there in Buzzard’s Bay.

Birkshites?

We would just send our realtors listings we wanted to see and they would screen through them for whether they're overpriced, if they had any red flags for location, and then set up all the visits for us. They scheduled them outside of the open house times so we had the visits all to ourselves. They would also add in ones they knew about once they got the sense of what we were looking for. The one we ended up buying was one they picked because we thought it would be too expensive (ended up getting it for close-ish to asking).

Worcester is the capital of Western MA.

Only Worcester county is central MA

I love central ,Athol,Barre,Oakham the Auburn Mall ,I love worcester county.I used to make the hour drive on my days off just to hang out in Gardner.

Someone finally nailed it

We did a pre approval. Pick a mortgage company first and take their advice. Also get a realtor, they can also advise what the best route is. We used Chuck Silverston and he negotiated 40k off the purchase price. This was 2018.

Western mass on the border with CT includes all of Hamden county your not in central MA until you hit Warren.WMass is all of and no more than Hamden,Hampshire,Franklin and Berkshire counties

I was thinking to use Redfin, it feels more flexible with being able to tour whenever

Its more the time commitment during the working days vs the cost, I'll see if I can find some online courses.

I have heard this is risky as well to rely on your realtor since they have an incentive to push everything through, especially for an inspector recommendation ... would assume it is easy to find one on google with some reviews

I'll look him up. Right now I am thinking my 3 choices to get rates are Guaranteed Rate, Quicken Loans, Leader Bank.

Thanks for the tip! Did you get a preapproval or precertification? I believe the latter is more intensive where you provide all your financials.

Yeah but what’s gam-gam’s stance on feeding edible panties to poor people?

What if we just stop giving wealthy people society’s welfare? Maybe we wouldn’t need poor people pantries? No? No? Still need to silverspoon wealthy people with our children’s future, eh? What’s that? You don’t know of any other way? Suuuurre ok grandma, time for bed now it’s 6pm.

OMG I used to go there!! RIP Hawaii Garden 💔

thank you!

thanks!