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What?!?! It's not dripping on the table anymore...
I guess you should be grateful he did something??
I have a horrible landlord story. I rented a house to a woman, her husband, and two kids. Credit check was fair. He was an HVAC tech. She is a nurse at Wicomico Nursing Home. Judiciary case search didn't indicate anything other than traffic tickets and one medical bill that had benn satisfied after going to court. For five years they were decent tenants. Paid rent on time. Kept everything nice. Then one month they didn't pay rent. Would return calls or answer the door. I noticed a dog in the yard and there were no pets allowed. I was able to contact the woman one morning when she was in the driveway talking to someone other than her husband. She told me she wasn't paying the rent because she had no money. She had just gotten a new car. She told me she was moving out and a week later she was gone. The house was flea and cockroach infested. The kitchen cabinets were destroyed. The carpet was burned, stained, and dog shit all over it . The dog had pulled and chewed the vinyl flooding in the kitchen. Giant holes had been kicked in the drywall. Soot from the fireplace required smoke remediation. $17,000 in repairs. What was that Jim ireton was saying about landlords making too much money?
8:48 AM, How often did you go and inspect your property?
Anonymous 8:48 your comment was right on! Landlords buy and rent properties for profit only! They could care less about maintaining or upgrading their rentals. It's a revolving door get the rent and if the tenants don't like it, then they either leave or get evicted. Then the next family of "suckers" get to line the pockets of our local landlords.
6 months
A landlord has no inherent right to enter a tenant’s dwelling unit in Md. The essence of the lease is that it transfers the right of occupancy from the landlord to the tenant. This right of occupancy is what the tenant pays for when the rent is paid. In connection with this right is an implied or explicit covenant of quiet enjoyment of the premises, which binds the landlord to leave the tenant to hold the premises in peace for the term for which the premises are let to him.
This is all because in MD a there is an absence of a statutory procedure in other words a law/laws.
If your land lord switched to a management company such as Caldwell banker your screwed. Nothing will ever get fixed. Be prepared to put your money in escrow and see the judge. This is especially true if Debbie Wolf is the manager. Slum Lord's! Good news is the judge will send inspectors out. You get what's needed fixed. The county has a great inspector who dosent tolerate slum Lord's.
Reasonable intervals of inspections with reasonable notice are allowed in Maryland and should be part of a lease. Landlords have the right to come in and make repairs with reasonable notice. Usually that means a minimum of 24 hours, less if it's an emergency.
A lot of landlords suck. A lot are good. A lot of tenants are nice. A lot suck.
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