I spent many hours beginning last June, meeting with a group that included tenant-advocates, people in the court system, the attorney general’s office, non-profits, and educators, to come up with ways to make the Rent Court system better. Landlords supported more education for tenants and more resources, including student lawyers and “navigators” to help tenants…
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Every winter the Maryland General Assembly meets for a period of 90 days to consider laws. Landlords and rental property owners and developers can breathe a sigh of relief about these favorable outcomes: HB172, named “The Home Act”, would have made it illegal to refuse to rent to a tenant because of their “source of…
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Baltimore City’s Zoning Code was written in 1971. The Planning Department has been working on a complete re-write of the zoning code for the last 10 years. The new code is designed to help the city be more walk-able, allowing, for example, coffee shops and retail shops to mix more closing in residential districts, to…
Read MoreOne more thing for which to be Thankful…on November 22, a Texas Federal Judge blocked the Department of Labor Overtime rule the was expected to make more than 4 million private sector workers eligible for extra pay. 21 States, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce along with others, requested the ruling. The injunction preserves the status…
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Unless and until there is a written Buyer-Broker Agency Agreement signed with a prospective Buyer, then Ben Frederick Realty, Inc., Ben Frederick Realty, Inc. represents the Seller. Please click here to download the Maryland Real Estate Commission form “Understanding Whom Real Estate Agents Represent”.
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