Massachusetts Guides

If you are buying a rural home in Massachusetts, the Title 5 inspection is the document that can change the price by $20,000 overnight. Most homes outside the cities run on a private septic system, and the state sanitary code, Title 5, requires that system to be inspected before the property is sold. Read the…

Moving to Massachusetts sounds like moving to one of the most expensive states in the country, and for Boston that is true. But the federal government’s own price index says something most moving guides leave out: in the rural, nonmetro part of the state, living costs run below the national average, and in the Pittsfield…