When a licensee is hired to find a tenant for a summer vacation home on...

The Massachusetts Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Act (M.G.L. c. 111, §§ 189A–199B) requires that residential property built before 1978 where a child under six will reside must be either deleaded or brought into interim control. However, the law includes a specific exemption: short-term vacation or recreational rentals of 31 days or less are not subject to the Lead Law requirements.

In this case, the home was built in 1950 (pre-1978), but since it is a two-week summer rental, the Lead Law does not apply. All other real estate laws, including Fair Housing, still apply, and an unlicensed assistant may not independently handle transactions. Security deposits remain capped by law (equal to one month’s rent maximum).