A couple questions: did she co-sign a lease with roommates? Or did she sign an independent lease for a rooming unit? If so; note that there’s very few legally zoned rooming units in Baltimore. It would be worth checking the use and occupancy to verify it’s a legally enforceable lease.

I notice the roommate situation and wonder: is this a sublet situation? Is the friend even on the actual lease with the landlord? Is subletting permitted on the primary lease? Friend is probably SOL if they are on the primary lease with the landlord. If sublet, there could be some loopholes to exploit.

If the problems your friend is having are a) the landlord's responsibility and b) constitute breaches of the lease, then your friend can potentially terminate the lease and move out without penalty. Your friend should talk to her local legal aid org for guidance.

The cops have done nothing but imply that if you call them instead of this number, which they did not set up and have nothing to do with, they will murder your loved one having a mental health crisis. This number was set up by the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline because they do what cops pretend to do.

This dude is a fucking cop. Ignore.

Normally,50 bucks per person.Well worth it.

And this in an environment where we are all supposed to be in electric cars by 2030... That's seven years away. Where's all this electricity coming from? How is it to be transported? I have turned down what I can. The kitchen, heated only by the cooking of food. The den, unnocupied, unheated. The basement, unheated (seems to self maintain at around 40). The living room, moved temperature sensitive critters in with us, and it's staying warm. Bedroom, still heated, but turned low. It's amazing what two or three blankets and a nice thicc wife can do!

CCBC Dundalk? One of the campuses- has a massage program that accepts clients.

surprised? Baltimore is a fucking shithole and should sink into the ocean

That's great. Just wanted to make sure. I've seen people get duped.

The Bun Shop tends to be pretty full at night, but mostly just with people on laptops. Spyrits Wine Bar usually has a decent crowd, if that’s what you’re in to. That’s kind of the limit of what I’ve seen.

The coverage I pay additionally for is "stoop to the curb". Each company could have different coverage so it's good to call and compare coverage and rates. Mine covers more than water/sewer, natural gas, underground electric and cable, which all serve my home, are covered.

>Can she just move house without repercussions?

Nope

I had a poor experience; it was determined that my problem was on the city side, but the city wouldn’t do anything because I didn’t have an exterior cleanout. HomeServe would not cover the cost of adding one.

Took us a while after moving here, it grows on you

Tuition money for the valuable lesson of getting everything that matters in writing.

Any suggestions for places that aren’t full of recent college grads?

What are the exceptions?

Make sure that extends beyond the footprint of your house. A lot of home insurance says it covers sewer but only means until it hits your exterior wall. Homeserve specifically covers the 10ish feet of pipe from your house to the street line which is an area the city does not cover.

Same here, ours was original terracotta and got destroyed by roots. Happened right after we bought our house and I spent $$$ landscaping. They had to dig out my entire yard and it’s been a clay pit since. In other news, anyone know a good landscaper who can level a rowhome yard for a reasonable price?

Absolutely yes. Homeserve was $40/year in the city. They dug out and replaced a broken exterior clean out that blocked my sewer service. Nothing out of pocket from the plumbers that initially inspected the line to the crew that dug it out and replaced it.

There’s a school of massage locally, with cheaper therapists. Maybe check there?

You could also find a physical therapist who is open to doing bodywork, and not just exercises, and then use insurance to cover most of it.

Nope. Moving room was a verbal agreement

1.) Housemates: that’s not really the landlord’s fault, though. That’s a personal disagreement with her roommates. It’s not that I don’t empathize, but roommates not doing the dishes or picking up their clothing from the floor just isn’t gonna be viewed as a reason she can break a contract with her landlord. If the landlord is fulfilling his/her end of the contract, then that’s pretty much where their legal liability ends in a lot of cases. Your landlord isn’t responsible for mothering your roommates and making them clean the bathroom once a week

2.) Moving rooms: was this in writing, or an informal agreement? Because unless that’s a provision of the lease, that pretty much has no bearing on breaking it.

3.) flies: I’m gonna guess her dirty roommates play more of a hand in that than anything. Some fly tape and a good scrub of the apartment would probably make some good improvements to that problem, but I’m not sure what the landlord is gonna be able to do if her roommates continue to be disgusting.

Yes, the one in DC is much better.