End.From Tenant Rights, Mass.gov:  "Your landlord, or an agent for your landlord, may only enter your apartment for the following reasons:To inspect the premises;To make repairs;To show the apartment to a prospective tenant, purchaser, mortgagee or its agents;In accordance with a court order;If the premises appear to be abandoned; orTo inspect the premises within the last 30 days of tenancy in order to determine the amount of damage to be deducted from the security deposit.The landlord should be reasonable and attempt to arrange a mutually convenient time to visit the apartment.

Anyways, I'd like to at least attempt to create some type of perceived responsibility in my lease for this kind of behavior, which can cost the landlord thousands of dollars if gone unnoticed (water billed quarterly).Thanks in advance!

@Jennifer Donley@Drew SygitI appreciate your inputs and I am willing to workout with the tenants if they would communicate with the PM.The current status: the PM made several attempts to contact the tenants but so far there are no response.

I share your frustration though, as I feel this part of the bankruptcy process gets abused sometimes against Creditors with perfectly valid/reasonable fees or charges they are attempting to collect on.Thanks,Jason DuhnLaw Office of Jason Duhn

My tenant, who has not paid rent in 10 months, went to the newspaper with lies regarding my attempts to evict her from the house.  

I’ve always found honesty and making an attempt  to go a long way in preventing a major issue  but to just ignore and stiff the landlord—selfish and unethical she wrong  A lot of people do nonsensical things.

But I am trying to attempt it with very less down payment (3.5% FHA), and facing the same roadblock as you.

Being in the PM business we are taking more and more calls from owners asking what we are going to do about non payments.When I tell them there is nothing we can do besides continue to attempt to get the tenant in board for signing up for assistance or asking them nicely to pay rent, they are in shock.It’s pretty heart breaking explaining to someone who put their life savings into a rental that their tenants are not paying and there is nothing I can do.I then try to console them but explaining I am owed over $35,000.

I would recommend John Mocker when attempting to insure your property.

Secondly, I would create a process and procedure on the way you attempting to contact them.