I'm just retiring mine after 17 years and 235k miles. Engine still runs great. It has been the most useful and best vehicle I will ever own. Great for hauling dogs, surfboards, washing machine, stand up arcade etc.

baltimore cops actually living in the city at all is kind of rare lol

The most fucked up part is that we just exchanged the merchant of death for a WNBA player who had weed charges, all the while incarcerating 40,000 Americans at any given time for similar charges.

Poor assumption.

It’s referring to Kamala Harris not Jill Biden

Exactly my situation. In Baltimore City and this was just a couple months ago. We move next week (60 day notice)

Had no idea this was a thing, I wish I could point out the law to our current landlord to further tell them how incompetent they are.

We signed a lease that stated 60 days notice, the lease ran out and we were put on month to month and that’s when all of the “well technically you don’t have a lease agreement so we can do whatever we want” started coming from.

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That looks absolutely lovely

not super loud if you can deal with the influx of conference goers every now and then

They must have a really tough life.

MHIC Contractor here. Not interested in your job.

Yes, you need a permit. If you read the regulations, you'll find they are super vague, and seem to say that almost any work requires a permit, which is basically the case. But of course, we live in a failed-state City, so in reality it doesn't work like that at all.

I routinely conduct business that involves plumbing, electrical, structural, HVAC,etc. without a permit, as does every other contractor in the City. The risk that by pulling permits, the City will completely fuck the project is so great that many clients prefer the risk that an inspector will somehow notice that work is under way, and put a stop work on us. I can't tell you how many interior-only jobs get permitted, but it's a tiny f'n fraction of what goes on. Basically the only time you get the City's attention on an interior job is the same way almost all other regulations get enforced in the City: solely by complaint. It's ludicrous how much power a shitfuck neighbor has in this town. My contracts for clients who don't want to pull permits state that the homeowner will pull permits according to local regulations etc, and that if a project is stopped due to failure to permit, I will cease work, remove all tools, and be paid for work to date, returning to the site only once permits have been worked out. This has never happened.

Exterior work however is a different ball game. Inspectors can see that work is under way as they drive around, and certainly do apply stop work orders to sites that don't have permits. So, for anything outside, I always pull a permit. A simple fence that could be a one day job? Permit, with the delays and costs that two inspections will introduce to the project. Window replacement--the inspectors literally don't enter the property to even look at the window, and there's nothing to actually inspect, City just gets their permit money and inspector hands you the final sticker--permit. I'm not interested in getting stop work orders so when it's exterior work, I get the permit.

In order to re-point, and remove formstone (then repoint what you uncover), you'll have to set up scaffolding. This isn't ladder work. And it's super messy...you'll be sending a plume of mortar dust into the air. It's all far too obvious to attempt without a permit.

Ah! I see those guys over Patterson yelling at kids to get out of the pool all the time! Cool thank you.

New law was enacted over the summer. June maybe. But again, only applies to apartments within Baltimore City. And yes, even if you signed a lease that says 60 days, the new law overrides that.

Reading through the rest of the thread I saw you were emailing the AGs office. Godspeed and good luck to youz

Knowing current pricing and setting next weeks or next months pricing are not the same thing. We can all see current pricing (that’s good for literally THAT DAY). They print a new price sheet daily.

They all know how eachothers pricing my guy. Even if they didn’t talk it’d be very easy to find out, thanks to websites like Apartments.com and others that are basically a necessity for landlords to be on in this day and age. And even if that wasn’t the case, it’s a very small community of professionals, you shouldn’t be surprised that they talk informally amongst themselves.

Tbh I’d have just not said where you were moving from

So? I believe in the free market. A free market does not include collusion.

And frankly I don’t care that I’m being downvoted by some, this isn’t about my ego.

It's been a major real estate strategy for many years to keep vacancies and increase rent on current residents. Similar to how the DeBeers company only releases a small number of diamonds every year to limit supply in order to manufacturer and artificial demand

When a complex has vacancies, the building makes less money. This difference in money is passed to the residents. Now you might be asking, why raise rent because that will make people not want to fill the vacancies? It's simple, now the property owner is making the same money as before with less tenants. Less tenants means less maintenance and less costs. If anyone fills the vacancies and pays the high rent that is just a bonus to the property managers.

With the high cost of rent, it sometimes ensures higher quality renters who make more money and are more likely to pay on time. This is not always the case, and definitely is not the primary driver in rent increases.

TL;DR: Landlords have 0 incentive to fill vacancies since it works out better for them.

In Maryland, no less. SMDH.

I've seen these a lot.

This is the story of Baltimore. Outsiders gobbling up properties for renting, gouging the tenant, not maintaining what they have. I find it curious as the residential rental market should imitate farming practices. Where the farmer purchases livestock and seeds, puts in the labor to improve the value of the livestock and crops, then can see a financial reward when the items are brought to market. In the end, the farmer knows that it is in their best interest to maintain their infrastructure, so it will work for him and not cause more setbacks for the next season. But, as we know the rental market is all about maximum payment now with no interest in tomorrow.

What puzzles me the most is that there are no smart investors who see that if they practice good farming tactics, they will have a better return over the long haul. Then again most rental property owners know nothing about maintenance or good animal husbandry. They think like the banks and want the fastest dollar today.

Johns Hopkins was in this same camp. Only through the goading and embarrassment laid on him by other wealthy Baltimorians did he provide money for the Hospital & College.

Yeah seems like they just outsourced it.

Thank you for all this info! I have half a mind to ask you to make a standalone post alerting people. I did want to ask about this portion of the new lsaw that is listed at the link:

> The tenant and the landlord may agree to a longer period of notice.

The next part after that just talks about having the period of notice be the same for tenants and landlords. But yeah that seems to say that the 60 days would stand if thats what you agreed to. How am I reading it wrong, or what’s the definition or other information that would make it line up with what you’re saying?

This hateful generation will die ouuuuuuut soon enough

Zekes roasts terrible coffee these days, everything tastes like an ashtray, sad to say it