For $1200, you won't be able to live on your own in biking distance of MIT. You might be able to find a crappy studio for $1600. $1800, you might find a more acceptable studio or a 1-bedroom. At $1200, your best hope is a room in a 2 bed, 2 bath...

Other notes: most of Somerville and Cambridge are bikeable to MIT or close to the red line. Anything close to the red line, you can take the train easily. Any other T line will get you there, but it'll take significantly longer since you'll have to transfer, or Lechemere on the green line will be maybe a 20 minute walk. Allston has a lot of apartment buildings, and is bikeable to MIT, and you can find some places there on the cheaper side.

Mmm, fair enough. I'd guessed that the "manager" may be considered "operator", but neglected to consider the ownership part in that line.

If the house and "other structure" (maybe a converted carriage house or something like that?) are on the same lot, that may fit the "operator must live in a unit adjacent to the STR unit as a primary residence" bit.

They just forgot to specify it's also 100 miles north.

Ok, wood comes from trees that got cut down, but is it actually a worse energy source environmentally-speaking than photovoltaic? While growing, trees provide food and habitat for wildlife, and require little maintenance to produce. PV solar, besides the environmental costs of producing the panels themselves, also depends typically on lead or lithium-based batteries, and all of the equipment needs to be replaced on a regular basis (5-10 years for batteries, 25 years for panels). Large-scale solar farms often occupy space that trees could instead, and I wonder whether the trees would be more efficient at capturing solar energy.

I'm sure improvements could be made in the forestry industry, but wood burning seems to be less of an environmental concern than burning fossil fuels, and is an economical source of heat in areas where wood is abundant.

>Just say no to pellets. Not environmentally friendly at all and a pain in the ass

I'm curious why you say pellets aren't environmentally friendly. They're nearly carbon-neutral, and otherwise would be a waste product. Many wood-burning appliances are highly efficient.

Once it's disassembled, it's not a mattress, it's just a piece of dirty old fabric and a bunch of springs, and not subject to mattress disposal laws 😉

This seems to be the thing to do now. In Watertown, it now costs $46 to recycle a mattress, but if it's too dirty to be sold to someone else, it costs $81. If somebody takes the mattress from your curb before the recycling people come, the recycling people only charge you $25.

Should probably send him to Wachusett Regional HS.

It was pretty simple when I did it, no notary required. But I think I had less than $100 owed to be between Comcast and an old health insurance company.