The MassLandlords Crash Course in Landlording: Elevate Your Landlord Game
When:
Sunday, Sep 07, 2025 8:30a -
4:00p
Sunday, Sep 07, 2025 8:30a -
4:00p
Where:
CIC Cambridge
1 Broadway; Floor 14
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
$275
Hosted by:
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
MassLandlords.net/events
Learn everything you need to succeed as an owner or manager of residential rental property in Massachusetts.
This fast-paced course is strictly limited to 16 participants to allow for detailed discussion and Q&A. Course tuition includes:
- Small group session with the Executive Director, a trained presenter and experienced landlord, and the attorney.
- A comprehensive agenda, see below.
- Your choice of two books:
- Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide by NOLO,
- The Good Landlord by Peter Shapiro,
- Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, and/or
- The Housing Manual by H. John Fisher.
- A bound summary of all material presented.
- Breakfast pastries, coffee, tea.
- Lunch sandwiches, sodas, chips, cookies; all dietary requirements satisfied, please notify us when you purchase a ticket.
- A MassLandlords ballpoint pen.
- A MassLandlords certificate of completion and permission to use "MassLandlords Crash Course graduate" on your marketing material.
You will receive a box packed with your personalized signed certificate,
your choice of two books, course notes, pen, and half a dozen other pieces of literature.
Sunday, September 7th
Crash Course Agenda
In-Person Course Agenda
- 8:30 am - Introduction of MassLandlords and course participants
- 8:45 - Rental markets
- Urban, suburban, rural.
- Luxury, college, professional, working, subsidized, rooming houses.
- Airbnb.
- 9:00 - Property selection
- Lead paint.
- Charging for utilities.
- Climate change risk.
- Heat pumps.
- Vinyl plank vs. hardwood floors.
- Landlord trade-offs repairs vs. cleaning.
- 9:40 - Marketing and advertising
- Getting the right applicants.
- Small business branding tips and tricks.
- Where to advertise.
- 10:05 - Break for ten minutes
- 10:15 - Finish marketing and advertising
- 10:35 - Applications and tenant screening
- Criminal, credit, and eviction background checks.
- Discrimination and fair housing.
- Interactive tenant screening workshop.
- Section 8.
- 11:30 - Tenancies
- Lease vs Tenancy at Will.
- Move-in monies.
- Security deposits.
- Pet rent.
- 11:50 - Break and Lunch, with free form Q&A
- 12:20 - Warranties and covenants
- Water submetering.
- Sanitary code.
- How to raise the rent fairly.
- Support animals.
- 12:40 - Dispute resolution
- Eviction notices to quit.
- Court process.
- Move-and-store
- Relocation assistance.
- 1:40 - Break for ten minutes
- 2:50 - Maintenance, hiring, and operations.
- Tax advantages.
- Property managers.
- Contractors.
- Building permits.
- Extermination
- LLCs and trusts.
- Grants and alternative funding.
- 3:10 - Break for five minutes
- 3:40 - Overview of books and resources for further education
- 3:45 - Review of unanswered questions
- 4:00 - End Course
Please note that end time may vary based on questions.
Location
14th Floor, Charles Conference Room
One Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02134
Please note: CIC has several buildings in Kendall Square, two of them being adjacent to each other. The correct location for this event is the building with light colored concrete, vertical windows and a Dunkin Donuts on the ground level. You will NOT see a CIC sign. Refer to the image below.
Food
- Breakfast:
- Fresh bagels, large muffins, cinnamon rolls, coffee cake slices and scones with cream cheese, butter, and jam
- Fresh fruit platter
- Assorted fruit juices and coffee
- Lunch:
- Assorted gourmet sandwiches
- Garden salad
- Pasta salad
- Assorted pastries
- Soda, juice, water
*Please email [email protected] if you have any dietary restrictions and need a special meal.
*Dietary restrictions: Purchase a ticket and set your preferences at My Account one week prior to the event or earlier. Once set, preferences remain set for future events.
Masks welcome! Eating and drinking is not required. Please note: as we are unable to monitor the buffet, we are unable to offer a reduced ticket price for attendees who will not be eating.
Pricing
Open to the public. Membership is not required!
- Public: $275
- Members: $250
- Card payments only. Events are cashless.
This event will not be recorded.
Registration: MassLandlords.net/events
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