Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Massachusetts

Re: Landlord lied on discovery

Your question unfortunately does not make sense. If your motion for continuance was not allowed, why are you going back to court on Thursday? If the case was continued (you don't say when the original trial was), what have you done in the meantime? What do you expect I can do to help you now?

Even if the landlord lied in his response to your discovery, the burden would be on you to prove it and to show why his lies make a difference in what the outcome of the case should be. IF the case was continued to allow you to do that.

If the summary process was brought for nonpayment of rent, the tender of the rent due should have ended the case. Not just the rent asked for in original complaint, but any rent due since, which is often another month.

If there was rent due, but the landlord gave you a 30-day notice to quit, whether the rent is tendered or not is irrelevant. In MA, the landlord does not need a reason to evict. If you tender the rent due, the court can allow you to stay for up to 6 months (almost never allowed for all 6), provided you pay the equivalent of rent due as compensation to the landlord - it is not rent, but "use and occupancy."

I'm afraid it is a little late to ask for legal help.