This screams "we need a lawyer". Especially since the sales are so new and, I am certain, one of the reasons you all purchased is the low $500 a month property maintenance fee that the seller (now self appointed HOA property manager) told you about. The bait & switch stinks of fraud.

In the interim, if I were an owner I would call a meeting of the other two owners and make a collective agreement that the monthly condo fees will be paid after the group can vote in a new HOA manager (4 months from the last sale) so he can not enrich himself in the interim.

Ask him to describe the projects he loves best.

Do FB, google & Reddit searches to locate posts from people looking to have that type of work done. Make a list of the words they use to describe the work, the questions they ask in posts and Google search terms they use.

Create a FB page for his business and craft posts using the words/questions/search terms from your research including before/after images of the work - and his location. Bonus points for video clips.

If you see posts in local FB or next door groups have him answer questions or drop a link to his FB page.

Triple bonus points if you can build him a website and create posts using the same tactics.

If the buildings are in an industrial or commercial zone, then zoning laws may tie local politicians hands.

^This. Stop & Shop did this for years (90's - 00's) in eastern & central Mass towns to secure their empire. Smaller supermarket chains would close and they would buy out the leases and/or purchase the buildings.

Found the State Legislator in the group

/s

Seriously though - there are 2 types of people in the world

Type 1 finds a problem and offers solutions

Type 2 hears solutions and looks for problems (mostly so they can maintain their privileged position)

The former creates progress through innovation

The latter makes the community a little worse every day as small issues first become annoyances and then become huge expensive impediments to growth.

Continued Boston centric growth in Massachusetts is an impediment to future growth in Massachusetts.

Every Massachusetts taxpayer bore the cost of the depression of the central artery, the Ted Williams tunnel and the Seaport district's infrastructure. Projects that all benefited the Boston area - so much so that the average weekly wage in Suffolk & Middlesex counties is now over $2200 per week.

The average weekly wage in Bristol County (New Bedford area) and Hampden County (Springfield County) is about one-half Suffolk/Middlesex County's.

It's well past time the State start investing in other regions and spread Massachusetts' miracle growth and wealth to the citizens in those other regions.

It's not just fair, it's the smart thing to do.

Does the lease explain what the landlord's responsibility is to inspect the apartment for all insects before you move in?

Have you asked the leasing office if there had been an infestation of bedbugs in the building in the past and if so what type and schedule of remediation they do to make certain it doesn't happen again? Like do they have a monthly contract with a pest control company?

They either care (and are proactive) or they don't.

I'd be more concerned about their responses to those questions than the addendum to the lease.

This won't stop until the State starts incentivizing businesses to move outside of Boston/128 loop.

The State Reps/Senators from New Bedford, Lowell, Worcester & Springfield areas need to all band together.

The chance that will happen is zero.

Our 1 party State politicians know if they buck the system, the system will kick them out, and politicians care more about their own paychecks/pensions than the people they serve.

Venezia in Dorchester. They have a gazebo for the ceremony and can accommodate a group for dinner OR rent you a private room.

https://www.veneziaboston.com

And yet airport trams all over the world make it work 24/7/365

Or, the barrier could just be a room that restrict riders from the boarding area until the train arrives (and passengers disembark)

Sure, there are always exceptions. None of those communities are on their list - so have probably been excluded for other reasons - like a hellish commute or living on an island deep in a sea of red.

They have a $1 Million dollar budget, are working in Cambridge and are self described liberals. They have the resources to choose a community based on things other than affordability.

West of 495 is much more politically conservative until you hit the Berkshires, which is a long commute to Cambridge.

Have you excluded North of Boston communities like Wenham, South Hamilton, & West Newbury?

35 minutes away from Mansfield you will find New Bedford/Fall River.

Similar to Chicopee in size/income where you can buy a 3 family for $400k, live in one of the units for free and be 1/2 mile from the warm water of Buzzards Bay.

You'll thank me in 20 years when you have $1M in equity.

Your lease has a habitability clause.

Identify the current conditions that violate the State sanitary code

https://www.mass.gov/doc/105-cmr-410-state-sanitary-code-chapter-ii-minimum-standards-of-fitness-for-human-habitation/download?_ga=2.55655215.5676113.1674424412-1008974906.1674011041

Take pictures of the violations and send a certified letter to your landlord with a demand that they fix the current violating conditions within 48 hours.

Send a copy of that letter/pictures by email to:

HOUSING Paul Williams, Assistant Commissioner, 617-961-3389, paul.williams@boston.gov

Along with proof the last inspection was cancelled and ask for his help.

I feel this comment so hard right in the ❤️. My Dad was an electrical engineer. Our home was jury rigged to within an inch of its life.

When he passed my mother had a a new service installed and the entire house rewired b/c she couldn't maintain it.

When multiple vulnerable people are housed in one location it makes it easier and more convenient for the criminals who try to prey on them.

Sell this property and use the funds to purchase 1 bedroom condos in separate locations in real community neighborhoods

This property is in the middle of a commercial zone. Those that need homes deserve a better connection to a real community.

Can we get affordable high speed rail from Springfield to South Station first, please? And then a Penn Station style hub under the old City Hall connecting the blue, orange, red & green lines in one freaking place, before anything else?

Bingo. If Republicans really cared about curtailing illegal immigration, they would prosecute (incarceration and fines) those that profit from exploiting immigrants in the construction, agriculture, and restaurant industries. Their wealthy donors would then lobby Congress to pass new immigration laws while the voters concurrently complain about the sharp increase in cost/reduction in availability of services. But, if the GOP solve this problem how could they froth their supporters up?