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You're referring to the state sanitary code which provides the standards with which an owner must comply. It has nothing to do with the landlord tenant relationship which is a matter of contract and/or landlord-tenant statutes.
If you mean to say, MA allows a landlord and tenant to contract around the sanitary code, what are you basing that on?

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I suggest you give up thinking about ways to mess with the landlord. Tenants who mess with the landlord and cost the landlord money are subject to eviction, loss of security deposit, lawsuits, and trashed credit.

Beyond that I have no idea what the point of your post is.
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.