Boston MA, Landlord, Eviction, Board of Health

[Chan K.]

Hi BPer,

What can landlord do to prevent or compensate for the Board of health visit?

Typically, when landlord sends a notice to quit/vacant the property, the first thing tenant does is calling the board of health. The board of health will show up without announcing, and they would pick on every little thing to make the building fail. With this finding, landlord can't raise rent or evict the tenant??? Doing so will consider retaliation. This is crazy ...

Does any landlord have a clause in their rental agreement stating that "tenant must upkeep the property to a condition and standard satisfy by the board of health State Sanity Code"?

Thanks,