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Real Cases in Real Estate is a weekly update on real estate law, with legal principles illustrated and explained by lawsuits from around the country. The topics are wide-ranging for appeal to a broad spectrum of readers including lawyers, homeowners...

Real Cases in Real Estate is a weekly update on real estate law, with legal principles illustrated and explained by lawsuits from around the country. The topics are wide-ranging for appeal to a broad spectrum of readers including lawyers, homeowners...

By Shelah F. Lynn and Tina Shin Maryland landlords beware: the state's highest court has made it much easier for victims of attacks by pit bulls or pit bull mixes to win judgments-not only against the dog's owner, but also against any landlord...

By Richard D. Vetstein, ESQ Renter's Insurance Policy Raises Questions I've recently become aware that some Massachusetts landlords are requiring that tenants procure their own policy of renter's insurance as a condition of leasing....

By Richard D. Vetstein, ESQ School is back and summer is over. September 1 and the start of the new rental cycle is right around the corner. It's time to review my best practices to get trouble-free, paying tenants in your Massachusetts rental...

BY: ROBERT CHARLES LAWSON In North Carolina and Virginia, although rental concessions still play a part in retail leasing negotiations, such rental concessions have softened compared to 2009, 2010 and 2011. Commercial brokers in the North Carolina...

By Richard D. Vetstein, ESQ 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...

By Richard D. Vetstein, ESQ Another Expansion Of Massachusetts Landlord Liability In yet another case demonstrating Massachusetts' inhospitable legal environment towards residential landlords, Northeast Housing Court Judge David Kerman has ruled...

By Richard D. Vetstein, ESQ With an abysmal 20% compliance rate, the City of Boston Inspectional Services Department is giving Boston area landlords until August 31, 2013 to register their rental units under a new registration and inspection ordinance...

Commercial tenants affected by Sandy may be in a difficult situation. Generally a commercial tenant's rights are limited to the rights set forth in the lease. Residential tenants have many rights guaranteed by law. Commercial tenants have very...

By Richard D. Vetstein, ESQ Under the new Massachusetts Domestic Violence Act recently signed into law, victims of sexual assault and stalking have the right to break their leases without significant financial penalty, have the landlord change their...