ORGANIZE!!!!

Your absolutly Right Howard! O R G A N I Z E ! Also the landlords too should organize as well to get rid of deadbeat renters who do not pay and tie you up for months and court costs. Also destruction of property faster than you can repair. Yes Howard ORGANIZE!!!! "THE LANLORDS ORGANIZATION AGAINST UNFIT TENENTS" YESSSSSSSSSSS ! GREAT IDEA!~

The tentants are the customer and should be treated as such and with recognizing in and listening to their concerns wiLandlorsll go along way in solving a landlords problems. The Greater Boston Real Estate with their powerful lobby has given resposible landlords enough protection if they act resposibilty. Your sarcasm not well taken

Well Howard got all my tenents from local real estate brokers and allways treated them right. Everything was split down the middle and I kept an open book. They all bought houses of there own. All it took was one SOB and Ill never rent this house out again. I dont care about any sarcasm Howard spend the day in court and see how all the deadbeats win their cases over bogus issues. Oh by the way on the internet there is a site how to hold up rent and screw your Lanlord. This is not the old days Howard where the Tennent and Lanlord had a good relationship and helped each other. Just look around at the destruction of the Malden Housing. Sorry but Im from Old School Too. Being a Lanlord today is like eating a bucket of Heart Attack. My appologies for the Sarcasm but when you have been there It leaves you in a bad way. Been there Done That

This is so true, tenants are customers. But, if a customer is unhappy then take your business elsewhere. This is going to be a flash point someday folks, those who are below the poverty line are going to cause anarchy one day as they have nothing to lose. That is exactly what this tenant union is, besides being crack Hoes, junkies and thieves. Love that Dirty water.

Don you make irresponsible statements without review of who are tenents in these buildings .You sure are getting the reaction that you proberly were looking for. We are made ujp of typical Malden Citizens that occupied thes older building for many years
with a variely of International residents who really treated these apartments as home.
Without knowlege of the member of Tenents United you have gone "OFF THE DEEP END"

I grew up in Malden. Please don't insult anyones intelligence on what is going on. If you are truly good people, honest, hard working, non-alchoholic, you have my sincere apologies. You are also the 1% in Malden. Speaking of that, why don't you contact the Occupy people, you might have some strong similarities there and lots of support. Just don't be stupid and try and block a Bruins game. That is what ended the Occupy movement here, the Bs fans kicked there asses before the game and went down to tear up their encampment after. Be the Occupiers, that will be impressive.

I feel that their is more than !% good and decent citizens in Malden as you seem to state in your remarks. I am a long time Sports Fan but take exception with actions of Bruins Maronic fans in expressing their feelings.
I belong to a group Mass Senior Actiopn that advocales for Seniors and their families here in Malden to make it a better place.

I don't work for Alpha. No way. I was there when those Occupy people tried to keep the Bruins fans from the game. It costs a lot of money to go to those games and to have some bums like that try to keep hard working people from enjoyment. Well, mother nature takes care of itself, because Bs fans are a fight looking for the hockey game. What happened that night was that all the South Boston Bs fans went crazy and the Boston police had to save the Occupy fools. True, the Bs fans didn't get rid of them, but would have that night. Sorry for the slight inaccuracy.

I guess the item for discussion is rent control, subsidized housing, ect. Is that the American way? I won't comment on that anymore, I surely don't want to help those who are imposing higher rents like Alpha. That is not right, but in America all try to make as much money as possible. How do we change that without giving up the right to develop property?

How do you go from bad tennents good tenents to an occupy post how did we get here? Another P'in Contest..haaaaaaaaaa,,,,

Mark Levine how are you saying harsh words?? Im just commenting that Lanlords should have there union too. How would you like to have kids a young family the all American Dream with a $2000 + Motgage and have a tennent go bad on ya. Ley me see a hole inb the screen I dont think Ill pay the rent excuse. Ive sat in on cases where a young couple had to forfeit 6 mos rent and another month free ride cause they could not get to it because of the high cost of matierials at the time and the tennent was the one who broke it anyway. Ive seen young couples walk out crying because they got behind. Walk in there shoes before you make silly statements.

Um... did you try fixing the screen? That's your job, after all. As for that poor young couple who had to forgo rent because they couldn't properly maintain the property, tough. Your tenant doesn't want to hear about your financial woes any more than you want to hear about theirs.

Diana Its just an example. I had four wonderfull tennents we were actually good freinds and they all bought homes except from one tennent from hell and thats all it took. I was always 200-300 less than anyone else and my books were open.Ive sat in court to educate myself and some of the excuses were so stupid. I would hear about my good tenents woes and worked with them like Ol School. If they were going to be late it was a just tell me ahead of time. No Problem. But you see thats Ol school Lanlord Tennent relationships. Sit in court for a day and listen and learn what goes on. On my Police Scanner all you here is lanlord tenent disputes and it comes to even fist fighting. wasnt my screen just an example of how some tennents can tie their rent up over bogus excuses sending you into a tailspin. Your Post is well taken thank you.

See, I disagree that a broken screen is a bogus excuse, and it's a terrible example. It means that the tenant can't open that window, and it's a pretty cheap and easy fix, so any landlord that won't fix it deserves to have the rent withheld. Personally it's not the route I'd go, I'd replace it and deduct it from the rent, but then I have an "old school" relationship with my landlord. I'd like to point out that the article you're commenting on illustrates the very opposite of an "old school" landlord/tenant relationship, and yet you're projecting one bad experience onto it and blaming the tenants. Sometimes you've got to consider a situation from outside of your own narrow life experience, or you wind up sounding like Don, and nobody wants that.

Instead of simple negotiations, Alpha our new Owners (land lord) Reptesentative tries to intimidate through Evictions Notices.
We are not intiminated, We remain determined
MA;LDEN/MEDFORD TENANTS UNITED formed to fight unreasonable rent increases..From the very beginning we made it clear we were willing to pay some rent increase.WE made a concrete proposal. Under our proposal Alpha Would make a profit! WE WOULD BE ABLE TO STAY IN OUR HOMES.
Alpha refuses to negotiate. Instead the are sending eviction notices in an attempt to break our determination
However me remain determined and confident
maldenttenantsunited@gmail.com 617 286 4397

Breaking news saw a realtor enter an apartment today without the tenants consent. They must be away for the weekend. Wish I had called the police.

They have been moving activity at 349 and the showing of apartments by Alpha Representatives, MANY OF THE APARTMENTS rented out are not inspected as required by Malden ordinance. WAITING FOR Board of Health to take action

This apartment was not even vacated. Person still living there, just not home. I called there off hours numbers to find out why a realtor would not call the tenant first before entering. Alpha "said" they have no knowledge or any realtors entering any apartments. They also said anybody sending in their old rent rate is scheduled to be evicted. Jeez what a tangled web. If I maxed out my mortgage I would be looking for as much as I could get from these tenants too. They claim market rent for a studio is between $900.00 and $1000.00 a month.

Should of left the Washington St apts in for the viewing. I don't know if you are the man I spoke to last night. My major gripe was somebody entering an apartment unlawfully. I believe while they are suppose to give a tenant give 24 to 48 hours notice. to enter, Which they did not. I had your defended alpha when they said they were changing locks so they would have a master key for maintenance reasons but what happened yesterday (realtor entering an apartment w/o tenants consent (or even a phone call telling the tenant) makes me think otherwise. You get more flies with honey then vinegar. Also heard the option in one of your leases that give you the right to raise the rent during the lease period. Oh yeah that's acting in good faith. I'm no pro but....

Did they happen to find any illegal activity going on, drugs/prostitution/b&e's??? I would be shocked if it didn't happen.

Theres a program on the telvision cable "Tenents From Hell" very entertaining..

Anyone remember the Old Suffolk Square?? Now that was slum lanlords! When they were going to Urban Renew there was a house fire every week. Was like a Buy It...Insure It...and Burn It.. Allways good to look back in history you can find some things that make ya go HMM.

That is Malden, Tenents from Hell. All this socialism has done is create a bigger problem now. Where do these people go, to the street? Will crime go up? Well, if we are going to go this way, lets demolish the several projects in town, give the land to a positive developer and build housing where only good hard workers can afford. The trash will clear out of Malden in about 2 years, then we can move forward. Kind of hard to undo 125+ years of people sponging off the Govt, but increase the price is a definite way.

I proposed the quick, painless approach to cleaning up Malden. We can either raise the rent for all those in the projects and these lower class building and drive them out slowy/painfully or we could demolish all the bad, rundown buildings quickly, get good paying tenants in and they will spend. Malden will flourish. Face it folks, it is going to happen whether you like it or not. Lots of money to be made and believe me, this kind of trash is not going to stop the greedy from making it. Trying ingoring that.

Just dropped off a friend who lives at 17 Washington St. Workers have their head buried in the bushes (working very hard I must say) and that have the locked security door ties off so it's wide open.

MARK AND OTHERS (LAST POST)This is not the only thing going on they are committing many illegal activiities going on the intimindate, harrass and bother tenants with wholesale eviction notices towing of cars to mention a few. It has come dow in court that they do not have a good case for raising rent to what they call "Market rate" for Malden. They have a sub par product having trouble meeting the building code. Now is the time for the City Administration to step up and enforce the laws. I think that the Hillide Urban Properities IncLLC is up for a lawsuit to enforce adhering to the law.

People are missing the point here you are tenant at will- this means for any reason the landlord can ask you to leave with 30 day notice under mass law and tenant can do the same. I have seen these units and I know of the prices both old and new. Don't be fooled many people will be tripping over themselves to live walking distance to the train for these prices. The majority of the current tenants of these buildings are not low income they make a good to excellent income, I don't feel bad that they now have to pay fair market rent. Yet they simply do not want to pay more for their housing expenses and they are willing to protest. I don't care If your landlord owns a two family or is a corporation you have no right jeopardize their financial success because you don't believe your rent increase was un-just. Free trade, we live in America like it or not. These units are small and will never be luxury however their value lies in the location. Every other property surrounding is collecting higher rents even properties in conditions sub par do collect higher rent. If you think not you have not look at the rental market lately. Right now it is a Landlord market not a renters market all these units will be rented quickly don't be foolish if you have a good place keep it sign a lease lock in your price now then you will have lease protection if you think you can get a better place do so move on. (No I don't work for the landlord I am a well informed and intelligent citizen)

Has anybody seen the ugly looking "BILLBOARD" Alpha has put up in the front of 17-19 Washington St. That is the most disgusting sign (awning) I have ever seen in my life. Kind of a wolf marking his territory. As I said Alpha IS entitled to "SOME" kind of increase but if enough to cover his HUGE mortgage payment. He probably mortgaged the place to the max based on his proposed increases. From what I hear people are giving in and paying the increases. If you are now paying market rent, get your monies worth. New kitchens, new bathrooms and windows, dishwasher, workout room. Get the point!!! You are going to pay full market price demand full market services. Any replies for Alpha's defense....bring it on!!!!!!