Home Sellers, Section 8 Housing,
Investment & Advisory, Online Business
Stone Bridge is built on reliable, family-first and customer-first principles. We help home sellers, property owners, investors and businesses looking to grow, through real estate investment and advisory, Section 8 housing solutions and online business solutions.
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We work with home sellers, investors, property owners and housing organizations, and with businesses growing online.
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Help with Section 8 compliance, occupancy and rental income.
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Specialized expertise in Section 8 housing programs.
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Stone Bridge offers real estate investment and advisory, Section 8 housing solutions and online business solutions. Our work is built on reliable, family-first and customer-first principles.
We work with home sellers, investors, property owners and housing organizations, and with businesses growing online.
Send a message using the form above, or call us anytime at 617-885-0705. One of our specialists will talk with you about your situation and how we can help.
Start a conversationYes. Seminar topics include selling your home, options if you’re behind on payments, renting to voucher holders, local landlord rules, your first rental property and getting found online. Tell us which topic interests you, and we’ll be in touch with details.
Ask about a seminarIt depends on the home. Sellers need a certificate of compliance from the local fire department showing the smoke and carbon monoxide alarms meet sale requirements. For a home built before 1978, sellers must give the buyer the lead paint notice and any lead inspection reports before signing a purchase and sale agreement. A home with a septic system generally needs a Title 5 inspection within 2 years before the sale.
Sources: Mass.gov: smoke and CO alarms (opens in a new tab)Mass.gov: lead paint notice (opens in a new tab)Mass.gov: septic inspections (opens in a new tab)
If you sell your main home at a gain, you may be able to exclude up to $250,000 of that gain, or up to $500,000 if you file jointly, when you meet the IRS ownership and use tests. Generally, you can’t take the exclusion if you took it on another home sale in the 2 years before.
The local Attorney General’s Office urges homeowners to contact their mortgage servicer early. Options can include a loan modification, forbearance, a repayment plan, a short sale or a deed-in-lieu. A short sale or deed-in-lieu means giving up the home, and it can still leave you owing the lender or with serious tax consequences. Foreclosure counseling from a HUD-participating housing counseling agency is always free.
Sources: Mass.gov: preventing foreclosure (opens in a new tab)HUD: housing counseling (opens in a new tab)
You screen tenants and sign the lease as usual. The unit must pass an inspection, the rent must be reasonable for the area, and the housing agency pays its share directly.
Source: Mass.gov: vouchers for landlords (opens in a new tab)
Not because of the voucher. Local law bars discriminating against renters who use Section 8 or other public assistance, or refusing to cooperate with the program’s requirements. Ads that say “No Section 8” are illegal.
Source: Mass.gov: housing discrimination (opens in a new tab)
A landlord may collect a security deposit equal to one month’s rent, and it must be held in a separate, interest-bearing account in a local bank. The landlord must give the tenant a receipt with the bank details within 30 days, and tenants who stay at least a year are owed interest on it. Not returning the deposit within 30 days after the tenancy ends can mean triple damages.
Yes. HUD’s newer NSPIRE inspection standards are coming to voucher units. Local housing agencies may keep using the older standards until February 1, 2027, and may switch sooner.
When you trade business or investment real estate for like-kind business or investment real estate, you generally don’t recognize a gain or loss. If you also get cash or other property, you recognize gain up to its value. Property held mainly for sale doesn’t qualify.
Rent, advance rent and expenses a tenant pays for you count as rental income. A security deposit you may have to return doesn’t. Many rental costs, like repairs and depreciation, can be deducted.
Source: IRS: rental income and expenses (opens in a new tab)
SCORE pairs business owners with volunteer mentors for free one-on-one advice. The local Small Business Development Center offers free, confidential advising, technical help and training across the state.
Sources: SCORE: free mentoring (opens in a new tab)MSBDC.org: free advising (opens in a new tab)
General information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Rules change, so check the linked source for the latest.
