Condominium Bylaws Condo For Rent In Suffolk
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The rules found in the Massachusetts inium Act include mandatory provisions that must be included in the bylaws, interests in common areas of the inium, and expenses incurred by the unit owners' association. The provisions also explain the fundamental attributes of a inium.
To have a pleasant condo living experience, keep in mind these legal rights for condo owners. The Right to Access Condo Documents. The Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination. The Right to Notice and Meetings. The Right to Run and Vote During Elections. The Right to Protest.
Federal laws - In addition to state law regulations, the federal government has laws that govern the operation of homeowners' associations, iniums, and other residential properties in the state of Massachusetts.
What Are My Rights as a Condo Owner? As a condo owner, you have the right to use your unit as provided in the master deed – if it's a residential inium unit – in a way that allows you to maintain a reasonable standard of living as required by Massachusetts health, safety and building laws.
A inium association (COA) does have authority to get a court order requiring a unit owner to evict a tenant. Whether or not the COA would be successful under your facts and circumstances is questionable.
Owner Not to Discriminate The owner may refuse to rent to anyone; however, that refusal cannot be based on race, age, religion, gender, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or because the tenant has children or in some jurisdictions, because of occupation or source of income.
You may refuse entry to a landlord if they do not give proper notice for a visit, or if they try to enter for any reason beyond the five valid ones listed below. These rights cannot be waived — they still apply if your lease says otherwise, or if you don't have a lease.
Landlords may not take the law into their own hands and evict a tenant by use of force or unlawful means. For example, a landlord cannot use threats of violence, remove a tenant's possessions, lock the tenant out of the apartment, or willfully discontinue essential services such as water or heat.
Before they can raise your rent (by 5% or more), the landlord must give you: 90 days notice if you have lived in your apartment two years or more. 60 days notice if you have lived in your apartment for more than one year.
Written notice must include: Termination date: The law says, the termination date must be effective no earlier than thirty days after the date on which the next rental payment is due (after the notice is delivered). The notice is considered delivered five days after mailing.
