Not all landlords are rich and evil, but this state goes out of its way to persecute them.
I recently rented a Cape house to a tenant who after a few years quit his job and refused to pay any more rent. After jumping through all the months of hoops of constable deliveries and legal paperwork, I finally got my first court appearance, which Massachusetts uses as a mediation hearing.
The judge who is running the mediation hearing asked me if I would dismiss the past rent (almost $15,000 owed ) if the tenant promised to pay me going forward…