If you mean to say, MA allows a landlord and tenant to contract around the sanitary code, what are you basing that on?
I can't imagine what is confusing you about my post. Let me re-state the question succinctly. A landlord in MA is required to keep the temperature above X degrees. Is this obligation mitigated by willful conduct on the tenant's part that lowers the temperature, or is the obligation absolute?
I am hoping for an answer based on the regs and or MA common law.

