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• A Different Type Of Tear-Down: Court Orders Million Dollar Marlblehead Manse Demolished For Zoning Violation
  Expensive Lesson–Build At Your Own Peril After a 16 year long saga, wealthy Marlblehead mansion owner Wayne Johnson’s battle to save his house from a court-ordered wrecking ball has come to an end. The underlying legal saga is convoluted and complicated, but the end result was swift and destructive — the million dollar mansion is now […]
• Massachusetts Landlords: Be Aware Of “The Professional Tenant”
  Avoid The Professional Tenant Like The Plague Using best practices to screen and select good tenants is the most important thing a Massachusetts landlord can do to avoid costly non-payment and eviction problems down the road, as I have posted about on this Blog. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a […]
• SJC Requests Friend-Of-The-Court Briefs In Important Foreclosure Case of HSBC Bank v. Matt
  In yet another move evidencing the Supreme Judicial Court’s ongoing concern over the impact of the foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts, the SJC is soliciting friend-of-the-court briefs in the next important foreclosure case, HSBC Bank v. Jodi Matt. As we wrote about in our prior post here, the SJC is considering whether a lender holding a […]
• Massachusetts Registries of Deeds Planning Class Action Against MERS To Recoup Recording Fees
  Banker and Tradesman is reporting that Bristol, Plymouth and Norfolk County Registrars of Deeds plan to file a class action suit against Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS), aiming to recoup land recording fees they believe they are owed. B&T reporter Colleen Sullivan reports that: The counties are being represented by Bernstein Liebhard LLP, […]
• Condominium Bait and Switch Scheme Nets First Time Buyers Big Recovery
  Six Year Litigation Odyssey Ends With $872,000 Payout After six years of litigation over a deceptive bait-and-switch condominium purchase scheme, a Cambridge couple has forced the listing broker in the deal to pay them $872,000 in compensation. The case is Oleg Batishchev v. Brenda Cote and others (click to download). The case started in 2005, […]