Make sure it explicitly explains the process for termination if you are unhappy with their services, but especially if they violate the terms of your agreement.3.

Short of that, you can be nice and give him 30 days notice of termination of work agreement and 30 days notice to apply for his apartment, the same as similarly situated tenants.

Question: She asked me if we could terminate the existing lease so that other spouse can be released from it (spouse got their own place) and do a new month-to-month lease.

This is cheap with battery-powered materials, if your local code allows it, significantly more expensive with hard-wired models if your local code doesn't allow them.

"Landlords Termination Option.

In one such case from Texas, the jury held sellers liable for failing to disclose the existence of foundation defects revealed in a prior prospective buyer's engineering report, where the prospective buyer terminated the earnest money contract based on the report.”

However, in your X-Day Notice to Cure, you would state that a future repeat infraction would result in the termination of the lease.  

So my $0.02 is hire your management company, have an ironclad contract with a 30-day termination provision, and get your partners and investors elsewhere.

Agree with Charlie on short term in Boston - new regs make that less feasible in Boston proper - but I work with folks who have robust portfolios of short term rentals in Malden and Chelsea, with the transit access of Boston but fewer limitations.

Replace all old detectors or at least put a fresh battery in.