Is the attic storage area mentioned in your lease?

You can hire the neighbors son as a contractor. He will essentially be a one man landscape company. You should ask for his tax ID number which is most likely just his SSN unless he sets up a business. Once your payments to him exceed $600 in a calendar year you will be required to issue a 1099 to him and report the payments to the government.

I work for a nonprofit in MA and we require all vendors working on our property to provide proof of liability insurance. This is especially important if he will be operating landscape and snow removal equipment on your property.

Ideally he should establish himself as a landscape company for both tax and liability reasons.

Do they still have the program where you buy certain new books from them and they guarantee 50% trade in credit value when you return it?

I think there is a process for being a write in candidate.

You can write in any name you like but if that candidate didn’t file the official paper work for being a write in candidate your vote won’t count for anything.

Voters could overwhelmingly write in “Bill Belichick” for Governor but if he didn’t file paper work those votes are meaningless.

Edit: upon further research it doesn’t look like there is any office write in paper work to file but any write in candidates are encouraged to contact local election officials to notify them of your campaign so they can anticipate the need to hand count write ins.

now that you are full time you may be able to get insurance through your employer.

you should expect your insurance premiums to increase over the next 5 years. If I’m remembering correctly I paid about $1200 in additional premiums over 5 years after getting a $75 speeding ticket for going 10 or 15 over the limit.

Your increase might be more significant because you were going 25 over the speed limit.