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• Chapter 1: Before You Move In
• Chapter 2: Tenant Screening
• Chapter 3: Security Deposits and Last Month's Rent
• Chapter 4: Kinds of Tenancies
  • What Kinds of Tenancies Are There
  • Tenants with Leases
  • Tenants at Will
  • Tenants at Sufferance
  • Tenancy by Regulation
  • Other Types of Non-Traditional Housing
• Chapter 5: Rent
• Chapter 6: Utilities
• Chapter 7: Discrimination
• Chapter 8: Getting Repairs Made
• Chapter 9: Lead Poisoning
• Chapter 10: Getting Organized
• Chapter 11: Moving Out
• Chapter 12: Evictions
• Chapter 13: When to Take Your Landlord to Court
• Chapter 14: Using the Court System
• Chapter 15: Rooming Houses
• Chapter 16: Mobile Homes
• Chapter 17: Condominium Control
• Chapter 18: Tenants and Foreclosure
• Appendix

By

Patty Whiting

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Reviewed

May 2017

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If you are a tenant in a mobile home or public or subsidized housing, you are a tenant by regulation.¹³ You may have more protections as a tenant.

If you live in a mobile home, see Chapter 16: Mobile Homes.

If you live in public or subsidized housing, go to:

• Public Housing
• Housing Programs in Massachusetts.

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¹³ . Spence v. O'Brien, 15 Mass. App. Ct. 489, 496 (1983).

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