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Verizon is buying FWA provider Starry for an undisclosed sum. Starry serves approximately 100,000 customers across five markets. Starry, like Verizon, uses millimeter wave spectrum to serve its customers.
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Spotlight: Homeowner Mortgage Ineligibility
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It has been said so often it is trite but nonetheless true: An oral contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. Also true but not said nearly often enough: A written lease isn’t worth much either if it doesn’t contain the language needed to protect the landlord.
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Effective August 1, 2025
Landlords have traditionally required tenants to pay the broker’s fee when they rent an apartment, and tenants have generally expected to incur that expense. But this standard practice in the rental housing industry is now illegal in Massachusetts as the result of an amendment to the state law governing the registration of real estate brokers and salespeople. That amendment, which took effect August 1, prohibits landlords from requiring tenants to pay the fee for the landlord’s broker.