We're looking at houses and my boyfriend has experience in construction but not termite inspection per se.

A little background- 7 years ago when I was 18 my boyfriend and I got our first apartment in the neighborhood he grew up in.

One tenant moved in w/ boyfriend, paid $750 first month rent and $750 sec deposit.

The owner was a developer who bought it for his daughter and planned to rehab it himself, but his daughter ran off with her boyfriend.

We had a neighbor that was very outspoken against it bringing other neighbors and her friends with her to say how terrible tenants were and that the lady in our rental house was already a disturbance to her (turns out she was bothered by the RC car that the boyfriend ran up and down the road during the afternoon sometimes on his days off because it bothered her dogs).

@Joel Owens - my boyfriend is actually from Chelmsford as well, what a small world @Geoff S. it'd be great to have contacts- I'll be in touch @Adam Carbone @Ann Bellamy @Shaun Reilly I will definitely make sure to attend a meeting soon in Maine.

No problems for one year.Then the "cousin" came to "visit" from "out of state", and her baby and her boyfriend and another couple and their baby and the tenant's ex-girl friend, the mother of the three children.

I had one knocked up tenant tell me she was breaking the lease to move in with her boyfriend.

Will a tenant decide not to suddenly move out to be with her new shackup boyfriend de jour just because you give her a box of chocolates?

When questioned she claimed her “boyfriend” wrote a bunch of bad checks he stole.