[MassHistPres] Lead paint program

[Garrett Laws]

What does isd say is necessary for c of c?

As I recall compliance does have some sensible flexability built into
it knowing that these situations will come up.

Ask to see quotes! Ask a few people for rough budgets as 35k is a big
# although it may be a really big nice house.

Lastly, you might want to go to the head of the loan program and ask
them to offer the homeowner a little more money to cover a nicer
result.

Cheers,
garrett

On Thursday, July 15, 2010, Ralph Slate <slater at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
> I was wondering if someone can answer a question about Massachusetts "Get the Lead Out" program.
>
> We had a homeowner who was under a court order to fix the exterior of his property -- badly peeling paint, etc. Due to the court order, he thus qualified for the Get the Lead Out program -- a 0% loan, payment of which is deferred until he sells or refinances the house. The homeowner met the income eligibility. The loan amount is up to $35,000 for a two-family house.
>
> The property in question is an owner-occupied two family house. The owner lives on the first floor. He has no children. He rents out the second floor.
>
> The owner told us that in order to get this loan, he must delead his entire house. The website for the Get the Lead Out program says a "Certificate of Compliance" must be received when the deleading work is completed in order to comply with the program.
>
> My question is, in order to get the Certificate of Compliance, must the entire house be deleaded? For example, if the owner lives on the first floor with no children, does he have to delead it? And if the third floor is not rented, does that need to be deleaded too?
>
> This is an issue because the owner claims that the $35,000 does not give him financial room to get proper replacement windows, and that abating the original windows via some other method will also put him over the $35,000 limit. He claims that he simply cannot afford anything more than cheap white vinyl windows with grids between the glass. He claims that he is not able to get a loan to cover the approximately $2,500 additional that it would take to do brown vinyl windows with exterior grids, which would not be as inappropriate as the white vinyl with grids between the glass.
>
> If that is true, then if the SHC denies the application, this owner will not be able to get the loan, and will not be able to meet his court order to rehabilitate the exterior of the property. If the SHC accepts the application, there will be a serious detriment to the district.
>
> The court order does not specify that the windows need to be replaced -- it's just that in order to get the money to delead the exterior, he needs the Certificate of Compliance, and to get the certificate the windows must be addressed in some way.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ralph Slate
> Springfield Historical Commisssion
>
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Cheers,
Garrett

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