There’s a half finished empty one in Billerica where Kmart used to be. I was wondering when they’d finish it but it seems it’ll probably sit empty. Though, an empty Amazon fresh is probably still an upgrade from Kmart…

There should not be anything illegal about this request, yes they can request this. However until you sign your new lease this 4mo would just be a verbal understanding that would not be otherwise enforceable outside of the notice requirements of the current lease.

They are likely being conservative and want to make sure they have enough time to find a new tennant if you`re not planning on staying. I do understand why this would be annoying, but it's also a good idea for all involved to plan ahead.

I expect most tennant's typically know 4 mo in advance if they intend to stay in the same place, barring the unexpected, and if they don't it's probably a good motivation to think about what you want to do.

Much much worse are the landlords who tell you a few days before your new lease that your rents going up 🤷. Or conversely the tenants that give landlords very little notice that they aren't renewing their lease.

There used to be a airsoft field right off of the Bourne rotary that was owned by Stop and Shop. They bought the land to sit on it and prevent the construction of a competing supermarket in such prime real estate.

Used to work at the Registry.

1. Surrendering your out of state reg means you turn over your registration, which will be cancelled in whatever state you’re from upon registering your car in MA. Registration means plates and actual registration card. Bring your registration and plates from state 1. Don’t even acknowledge the state 2 stuff when you go, you’ll just be over complicating.

2. Bring your current registration that matches the plates on your car. Again, I wouldn’t go out of my way to tell anyone you lived in another state and didn’t register there - it’ll just confuse everyone and someone will find a way to overcomplicate everything. If you don’t have a copy of your registration, get a dupe.

Edit: Talk to your insurance company before you go; you’re going to need a current insurance stamp and an RMV-1 form (or whatever the new version of it is called). Basically, you need a completed application with your insurance company’s blessing in writing, on the form.

I have nothing but good things to say about the car. I ended up getting the RWD SE model, so it lacks some of the fancy stuff at higher trims. It handled fine in the limited amount of snow we’ve gotten this past winter, and the range increase of RWD vs AWD is something to consider. Still, it’s admittedly an expensive car even at its RWD base trim models. If you meet income requirements for the federal tax credit, it’s important to note that the I5 does not qualify for the federal tax credit due to the 2023 models being manufactured in Korea. They have plans to start manufacturing them in the US, but my understanding is that they’re at least a couple of years away from that.

Some owners of the 2022 model have reported 12V battery issues around the 1 year mark, possibly from faulty ICCUs, possibly from excessive drain from third party apps “waking” the car to harvest data (one possible source has been speculated as utilities on reduced rate programs retrieving updates from the car hundreds to thousands times a day). Hyundai has supposedly fixed the early ICCU issues and just released a patch that prevents third parties from pinging the car so much, but it remains to be seen if later models will have 12V issues at the same frequency.

Competitors would be VW’s ID.4, Tesla’s Model Y, and Ford’s Mustang Mach E. I believe all of those are also pretty well reviewed, and some (if not all) would get the federal tax rebate. If you don’t qualify for the federal tax rebate anyway due to the income cap, then the I5 is more competitive in price. All EVs do qualify for a $3500 rebate through MA’s EV-mor program (no income or manufacturing origin requirements), and I was able to get that without any issues.

Oh, and just to add some insight on superchargers: Tesla has already started rolling out the magic dock upgrade to their chargers that enable CCS charging. But the I5 has had some issues due to the higher voltage architecture (800V versus 400V of Tesla). Those issues are supposedly being patched soon by Tesla, but as of now, the I5 only charges at reduced power at the few superchargers with magic docks.

You go electric to save the environment, not to save money.

Look at this way. In terms of cost per mile, the public chargers are priced to be about the same as gas. But ICE cars cannot charge at home, whereas EVs can.

Also, MA is a bit of an outlier here due to our crazy high electricity prices. On a national average, EVs make more sense.

Depending on the efficiency of a particular EV, routine driving (i.e., our and about within an hour of your home) saves an EV drivers hundreds of dollars compared to the cost of gas. That savings can be used to rent an ICE vehicle as needed for long trips. As long as it's not done often, I would still come out far ahead.

Take these real numbers for example:

• A good EV gets roughly 4mi/kwh. Some Tesla's get more, some bigger truck EVs get less.
• Average MPG in the US right now is 25mpg.
• Regular gas is roughly $3.50/gal right now.
• So to drive 100 miles would use 4 gallons, which would cost $14.
• For an EV to beat that, the cost of electricity has to be less than $0.56/kwh.
• Average electricity costs is $0.15/kwh (I know I know, MA is way higher).
• Driving 10,000mi/yr in an ICE vehicle would use 400gal and cost $1,400.
• Driving 10,000mi/yr in an EV would use 2,500kwh and cost $375.
• The net difference is a savings of $1,025/yr.
• Looking at some non-airport car rentals nearby, I can get a 2 week-long rentals of a fullsize SUV and a several tanks of gas, and still have some savings left over.

Depends really what area you're in. There are lots of little farm shops that are open seasonally. A few like Atkins that have expanded and are open year round

I can't speak for Revere, but I live in another town with a soon to be million square foot distribution center. The Town did not offer Amazon anything. Amazon presented a proposal, the Select Board reviewed it, and the entire town had the opportunity to vote on it. Amazon "negotiated" a ten year phase in of full property taxes, in exchange for the location agreement. Amazon also paid the Town something like $500,000 for local impacts, agreed to fund some street/traffic improvements at their two driveways, gave a substantial donation to a neighboring non-profit nature center, and also promised money for a bandstand. If we did not agree, they would take their proposal to a neighboring town.

Towns prefer business over residential housing. Housing brings families with kids, whose property tax contribution is a net negative with respect to the cost to educate kids. *Spelling

I think amazon likely just moved into this spot for it's immediate proximity in either direction to rt1.

Oh wow. What do they get like tax breaks for bringing in jobs and “improving” the area ? There seem to be no consequences to not holding up their end of the bargain, or else it’s cheaper to pay the fines or whatever than to operate as planned.

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indeed.com and craiglist should be good for jobs

I don’t get the Market Basket love either. Occasionally like twice a year, I go to the one in Ashland and it’s always a shit show. The parking lot is the seven circle of hell and the store is as you described, crowded and tight.

good info - as someone just thinking about an EV, these articles just don't help. Tesla seems to be the Apple/iPhone of EV and none of this is going to get better without some govt intervention/regulation.

I've been looking at the Ionic. What insights can you give?

Go to the local union hall for whichever trade you are looking to join. They will have all the info you need.

Albany is an hour away, which affords access to Trader Joe's, which is in that zone that you want with MB. There's also a Whole Foods (but Guido's is closer!), as well as more Hannaford's (which I've always liked).

You'll end up winning the stupid prize - they'll find a replacement in a heartbeat while you'll need to find an apartment within 30 days which won't be easy and you won't have a good reference from your landlord which will make things even more difficult. But you be you.

S&S did this in Eastham, Ma when MB was looking for an area to open a store on the outer Cape. The bought up a perfect tract of land that is still sitting dormant right on Rt 6.

https://www.masslegalhelp.org/housing/lt1-chapter-11-your-responsibilities

Yeah, EV charging infrastructure needs work, but that article is sort of hilarious in the lack of preparation of taking a road trip in an EV. They leave for a fairly long road trip at 48% (first mistake). They don’t plan their route at all for L3 chargers nor take the time to actually click on the EA charger that’s “coming soon” (second mistake). Then they end up having trouble at an L2 station because they didn’t update the app on their phone (entirely a user issue).

There are third party apps for finding chargers (like PlugShare), and most EV owners understand that route planning based on chargers is required at this stage of adoption.

We are still in the early adoption phase of EVs, and I don’t blame on people not wanting to make the leap right now. I own an Ioniq 5 myself, but I’m not ready to take it on certain road trips (I mentioned in another post that NH is a fast charging desert). But the driving experience of the I5 is so far ahead of an ICE. I hate driving our Subaru during those few long road trips we make a year.

And there really isn’t an issue with standards per se. I hear this complaint/concern a lot, but there is basically one standard (CCS) that almost all automakers other than Tesla uses. Tesla has their own proprietary standard, and always has, but they’re opening up their superchargers to CCS vehicles. There’s chademo too, but that’s sort of an abandoned Japanese standard that never really took off here. The Nissan Leaf is pretty much the only vehicle that I’m aware of that is still manufactured with chademo L3 charging. L2 is the same, J-1772, across all manufacturers except Tesla which sells/includes a J-1772 adapter for their vehicles.

Based on the information you've provided (i.e. the word "resigning"), it sounds like you don't have a lease after August 1 as it stands. Unless written in the lease, there is not a requirement to renew a lease at the end of a term. Your landlord is saying they will renew your lease if you tell them by April 1 that you want to do that. If you're not going to renew, they presumably start looking for new tenants and are giving themselves a ton of time to do that. It definitely puts you in a tough situation, but from what you've said I'm not aware of anything that makes their request illegal.

We were told we need a thermostat as well. We used the Flair puck system.

All over the country. Not just Amazon either. A lot of these big corporations seem to be making huge promises for how many jobs they'll create in order to get concessions, then they only deliver a fraction of them.

This is kind of what I gathered. They are trying to raise my rent quite a bit. I’m looking around and I think they’ll be lucky to get it leased for their asking, plus any unfilled time. I’m paying $2700 and they want $3100. I know I’m their first tenant. Part of me wants to move just to teach them their lesson. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. But then I have to pay to move lol. I offered to compromise but they seem to think it’s worth that much.