Many tenants in need of legal assistance, as well as landlords involved in legal cases with tenants, often ask about the fee for a tenant attorney. Most people are familiar with the general model for hiring an attorney: the attorney more »
The Massachusetts Foreclosure Law Blog is proud to have Attorney Uri Strauss guest blog on the Massachusetts foreclosure title clearing bill and its upcoming December 31, 2016 deadline for homeowners who have lost their homes to foreclosure. Uri Strauss is more »
President-Elect Trump’s selection of Steven Mnuchin to head the Department of Treasury has raised a troubling story about this nominee’s involvement with OneWest Bank, a national financial institution (which has since been acquired by CIT Bank). OneWest is reported to have more »
A notice of eviction in Massachusetts can mean one of two things. To start an eviction, a landlord is required to send a tenant a notice to quit. The notice to quit informs the tenant that the tenant’s tenancy is more »
I had the honor of arguing before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) this week on a foreclosure appeal. The SJC is Massachusetts’s highest court and the final decision maker on Massachusetts law. The SJC often takes cases where the more »
Once foreclosure begins, can it be stopped? In Massachusetts, the answer is “yes.” The start of the foreclosure process in Massachusetts begins with a series of notices sent to the homeowner, informing them of the foreclosure sale date. These notices more »
While I take cases all over Massachusetts, I have many landlord and tenant clients in Somerville . . . not surprising because my office is located in Assembly Square and I proudly call Somerville my “business” home. Somerville is a more »
For homeowners trying to avoid foreclosure, getting a loan modification (where the lender agrees to adjust the monthly payments to an affordable amount for the borrower) would seem to be the solution for beating foreclosure. Believe it or not, more »
A central question that anyone in a landlord/tenant case needs to consider is, who pays legal fees in an eviction case? The answer to this question makes a huge difference in determining whether to pursue a potential claim against a more »
