I am not an attorney but even if there is some weird clause in your lease I don't think it would be enforceable, especially in a city as tenant-friendly as Baltimore. That said, the landlord could be a petty asshole and try to hold your security deposit if he thought you were turning off any potential tenants so I guess ask yourself if you want the inconvenience. My guess is if they are making up this kind of stuff they'll probably find an excuse to try and keep your security deposit anyway.

I wish there was a legal way to stop Sinclair’a anti-democratic fuckery. Like, maybe imprison the Smith family for spreading Russian propaganda, or at least for poor taste

I'm surprised that your landlord or their agent scheduled walk throughs while you're at the property. Is your landlord present, or do people just show up to do a walk through? If your landlord or their agent are present, and you're talking shit about them and the property to prospective tenants, you're a legend.

Not a legal expert, but this is weird. I rent rooms in my home and lead with the negatives. (No central ac, shared bathroom, no cable, etc.) I wouldn’t put someone in an uncomfortable situation. I encourage my current roommate to ask the new tenant questions and talk with them. All parties should be satisfied with accommodations. As a landlord it is different. I remember asking one once if there were young single people in a complex and they couldn’t answer demographic questions, rightfully so.

Natural resources matter. The plastics produced for these homes and the lumber that has to be harvested. I don't care if under armor spends money, I care about material waste.

Does it? There are so many houses for sale near me and they are all way more than I can afford. I would love for more houses to be available - I just want them to be rehabilitated vacant homes instead of wasting materials building overpriced townhomes that will fall apart in 10 years.

I personally want owners of vacant homes to be forced to sell them if they have been vacant for over two years. I worry that more home construction will lead to more homes that will just become vacant. I am sick of the fires and drug overdoses that happen in vacant homes. I think it is fair to request we fix the ones we already have before building more.

what we really need is an open primary where the top 3 go to the general election, regardless of party (so you can have more than one Dem, similar to what california does). then ranked-choice with the remaining 3. having primaries be the only election that matters is a flawed way to do things. then, keep synched up to presidential cycle to increase turnout.

I actually do like the term limits. the "institutional knowledge" argument is horse shit.

if you're on the city council and you actually care about the city, your institutional knowledge won't be lost because you will take a job as either staff for a particular elected individual, or you will work some other role in the city government and maintain availability to answer questions and advise council members. Lawrence Rashad Anderson, Scott's Chief of Staff, makes $142k per year. if a councilperson refuses to get paid $142k for the sake of maintaining institutional knowledge, then they never cared about the city in the first place and we don't want them advising anyone.

…. And we’re not renewing the lease” BOOM

I just read, and hadn't heard this before, thay his wife is likely culpable in some parts of his theft/embezzlement/fraud from before they were married but they married when the investigation started which gave her spousal immunity.

Sounds like she's just as much of a scumbag as he is.

Acting like black voters in Baltimore don't have agency to make political choices is a great way to bring into effect what you claim to fear.

Rather than pretending that white residents from a different county have all the power, why isn't a stronger case being made to Baltimore residents of all backgrounds to defeat the term limit measure?

Maybe he had someone make him a fake passport.

But yeah, maybe he is hiding in some rural area with a mustache, trench coat, some sunglasses on.

That kinda sorta sounds like a bribe…

They might not do those things, but I could definitely see them withholding the security deposit for petty reasons based on this.

We took megabus to Philly the other weekend for 20 bucks- that’s the way to go!

what a ridiculous spin, best of luck to you

> Lmao “safe and some kind of mixup”, so republican judge who has no intention of doing their job.

Deborah Boardman was appointed by Biden in 2021, and 48 Republican senators voted against her appointment.

https://ballotpedia.org/Deborah_Boardman

He's so spectacularly incompetent that being able to recall him seems so attractive that this referendum will pass with flying colors. They just have to position as the "get rid of Brandon" referendum.

I am someone who isn't very well versed in politics, can you explain what you mean by this? (I'm aware of who Brandon is)

> no intention of doing her job

An arrest warrant was issued …

I’m not sure what else you expected to happen right now. That’s literally the only thing to do.

Like honestly tell me you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about without telling me you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about

Even if it was in the lease if it’s illegal it doesn’t matter

Too bad Brandon is making it so much easier to get this passed.

Making Baltimore fully unable to operate is one of the end goals for Sinclair. The term limits referendum was just like this - ostensibly populist proposal that actually just kills institutional memory and expertise and diverts an amount of power to interest groups like Sinclair. Imagine their machine just constantly churning out recall votes every few months.

There isn’t anything inherently wrong with the idea of recall elections, but I really don’t trust Sinclair to be doing it in the public’s interest.

(Slightly unrelated: I really want to learn how to get a referendum on the ballot because I want to get ranked choice and possibly multi-member districts in Baltimore.)

The equivalent of Amazon gift cards for five star reviews. Cool grift, landlord!

>"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

• Emma Lazarus, inscription on Lady liberty.

smh.

I feel like replying to viewers with “my landlord has threatened legal action if I answer any of your questions” will tell them all they need to know.