Legal Tactics: Tenants’ Rights in Massachusetts (2025)
Legal Tactics: Tenant’s Rights in Massachusetts is the most comprehensive handbook on tenants rights in Massachusetts. Written in easy-to-understand terms, this volume focuses on private rental housing. It answers questions on tenant screenings, security deposits, rent, repairs, evictions, housing discrimination, lead poisoning, mobile homes, and tenants in foreclosed properties. Over 40 sample forms, letters, and checklists provide tenants and their advocates with the tools needed to prevent problems, and communicate effectively with landlords, boards of health, and courts. A one-stop reference, this book also provides the legal back-up you need through footnotes, an expanded phone directory, and a glossary. Includes updates to the 2023 revised State Sanitary Code; how to file a complaint with the court system if you feel you have not been treated fairly; and new protections for tenants under the condominium conversion law.
Chapters and forms are available to download for free. Tenants, community groups, legal services, individual tenants, and nonlawyer community advocates are eligible to purchase this title at $35. Bulk discounts are available. Please call MCLE’s Customer Service Team at 800-966-6253 to place your order.