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...When violations of the standards of fitness for human habitation as established in the state sanitary code, or of other applicable laws, ordinances, by-laws, rules or regulations, may endanger or materially impair the health, safety or well-being of...
...betterment agreement pursuant to this section to finance the repair, replacement or upgrade of a septic system serving a unit, one or more of which is used for human habitation provided that such system comprises part of the common areas...
...pursuant to section thirteen of chapter twenty-one A requires the repair, replacement or upgrade of a septic system the owner of a structure used for human habitation may petition the board of health in a city or town to...
...repair or cleaning by local boards of health and, in the cities of Boston, Worcester and Cambridge, by the commissioner of housing inspection, of any structure which so fails to comply with the standards of fitness for human habitation or...
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[10] Although the judge found that Torres proved that the violation of the warranty of habitability lasted from July 2021 through March 2022, the undisputed evidence shows that the floor was not fully repaired by March 2022: Ndoro testified that...
...We hold that the tenant’s obligation abates as soon as the landlord has notice that premises fail to comply with the requirements of the warranty of habitability. The landlord’s lack of fault and reasonable efforts to repair do...
case, we think that the present statute, which contains an express policy favoring “repair, replacement or maintenance” of rental units, must be construed as giving Boston at least the general authority to link a rent increase with habitability, since that...
...third party for such repairs within five days after such notice, and to substantially complete all necessary repairs within fourteen days after such notice" where there are "violations of the standards of fitness for human habitation as established in the...
are clearly relevant to habitability, the subject of Regulation 11, § 5(A)(3). The landlord argues, however, that factor (5) applies only to a “deterioration” of the premises from its previous condition, or to a lack of “repair, replacement or...
The language from Hemingway quoted above, suggests that the scope of the warranty of habitability includes only the physical maintenance and repair of a dwelling unit, because the discussion focused on the inability and lack of incentive of modern day...
...326 (1980), for the proposition that the warranty of habitability has been extended to commercial settings. However, Yanofsky simply holds that where a commercial lessor expressly agrees to make repairs and negligently fails to do so, a lessee injured as...
...111 § 127L (repair-and-deduct) and ch. 186 § 14 (quiet enjoyment) as the three pillars of MA tenant habitability rights.
...The statement in Berman that a landlord’s efforts at repair have no bearing on the calculation of a rent abatement applies only to a claim for a breach of the warranty of implied habitability, for which liability is imposed...
...at 459, 470-471 (no c. 93A violation where tenant's delay in notifying landlord of habitability concerns was only cause of delay in addressing condition issues and, once notified, landlord contracted with plumber to perform repairs within one month).
The language from Hemingway quoted above suggests that the scope of the warranty of habitability includes only the physical maintenance and repair of a dwelling unit, because the discussion focused on the inability and lack of incentive of modern day...
...201, seeking the appointment of a receiver to collect the rent and apply it to the repair of his apartment to make it fit for his habitation. The Superior *169
The BHA does not challenge the judge’s conclusion that its failures to repair the leaky roof and the defective floors were breaches of its implied warranty of habitability or his determination that the leaky roof interfered with the plaintiff...
We conclude that the implied warranty of habitability is concerned with the provision, maintenance, and repair of the physical facilities vital to the use of the leased premises, and is not breached solely by the presence on the premises of...
The implied warranty of habitability “is concerned with the provision, maintenance, and repair of the physical facilities vital to the use of the leased premises” (emphasis in original). Doe v. New Bedford Hous. Auth., 417 Mass. 273, 282 (1994). Not...