Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Massachusetts

Re: landlord/tenant

From your question, I assume that this is owner-occupied.

You have the right to require your landlord to pay your utilities, as they are not separately metered.

Your landlord has some right to control your guests, keeping the apartment from becoming overcrowded with "permanent subtenants," but I suspect that this is too much. You are in the "gray area," because you are in an owner-occupied unit.

You can:

-Negotiate the issues (cut the crap about my boyfriend and I won't report the illegal apartment and its illegal use of my utilities);

-Just plain report the issue to the local housing inspection service (causing illegal reprisals and possibly ultimately getting you some money damages, from a court, but also keeping you miserable with an angry landlord);

-Find another apartment.

I won't varnish my advice much to make it pretty. "All roads lead to a new apartment." I -will- note that the reporting route has the advantage of protecting the NEXT person the landlord shows the apartment, as the landlord will have been ordered to correct the problems.

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