Useful Forms

One of the most important steps you can take as a tenant is to put your concerns in writing. This may mean writing a letter, filing court papers, or putting together documents that help tenants organize.

This section of the website has checklists, sample letters, and useful forms. Each of these forms has a number and is explained in the handbook Legal Tactics: Tenants' Rights in Massachusetts.

Booklet 1 Representing Yourself in an Eviction

Booklet 2 Housing Code Checklist

Booklet 3 The Answer - How to Defend Your Eviction

Booklet 4 Discovery - How to Get Information to Prepare for Your Trial

Booklet 5 - Transfer Form

Booklet 6 Removing Default

Booklet 7 Where Do You File an Appeal

Booklet 7A Appeals in Housing Courts and Superior Courts

Booklet 7B Appeals in District Courts

Booklet 8 How to Get Time to Stay in Your Home If You Lost Your Case

Booklet 9 Affidavit of Indigency - Ask the Court to Pay for Court Costs

Form 1 Tenant Lead Law

Form 2 Moving In Checklist

Form 3 Statement of Condition

Form 4 Security Deposit and Last Month’s Rent Receipt

Form 5 Security Deposit Demand Letter

Form 6: Serious Illness/Utility Shut-Off Letter (Sample Dr.'s Letter)

Form 7 Serious Illness/Utility Shut-Off Form

Form 9 Repair Letter

Form 10 Repair Demand Letter

Form 11 Inspection Letter

Form 12 Rent Withholding Letter

Form 13 Repair and Deduct Letter

Form 14 Tenant Petition to Enforce State Sanitary Code

Form 15 Temporary Restraining Order

Form 16 Tenant Survey

Form 17 Moving Out Checklist
A practical checklist to help you prevent problems and misunderstandings between you and your landlords when you are moving out.

Form 18 Lockout/Utility Shut-off Demand Letter

Form 19 Sample Summary Process Summons and Complaint

Form 20 Motion to Dismiss

Form 21 Sample Execution

Form 22 Freedom of Information Act Request Letter

Form 24 Sample Collective Bargaining Agreement

Form 25 Sample Organizing Resolution

Form 26 Sample Organizing Petition