After football season I will too.

Maple Lawn is really, really expensive though? Probably very top or exceeding the proposed budget. I have a friend that lives there and I go to her townhouse often enough... It's at least 600k.

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These are amazing!

i'd advise against this because if they're negligent/unwilling to keep a building up to code they're definitely going to drag their feet and cut corners about wood stove maintenance (and installation!). offering them an "easy" way out that has a high risk profile solely for the tenant if done wrong is basically asking a landlord to do the worst job they can for the least amount of money and put your own life in as much danger as possible. i know wood stoves are generally very safe and efficient when installed and maintained well, it's just the "installed and maintained" part that seems to be the uphill battle here. pull code on these slumlords and bleed 'em dry, they deserve every headache you can give them.

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Really love this one

Is it really unexplainable, or are they just huge idiots? Any non-idiots would have gotten an accountant to deal with their financial issues properly the first day the IRS came knocking. They could’ve afforded a second condo legitimately, why did they feel the need to buy two, so urgently that they’d lie about Covid hardship and fake Nick’s dead dad’s signature on documents for like $5,000?

Nick was elected and he was young and full of energy, seemed promising. She was an unknown and got in with his name recognition. And then they both got way, way out of their depths, in terms of basic how-the-world-works experience and sense.

Frosty is a locally and family owned. Always had good experiences with them.

Only ever ordered oysters once there after I couldn’t get a lemon. And I’m a Woodberry fan for sure.

Thinking with your whole brain on that one

It means she doesn’t get to delay any more, so there’s that.

Incompetence makes everybody’s life harder. She didn’t do them any favors because she was trying to do them favors, she was just bad at her job.

In her mind she’s like Megan Thee Stallion strutting around being a bad bitch, doesn’t get that you’re only a bad bitch if you’re actually competent at life. Otherwise you’re just a shallow idiot with good hair.

Carol Ott has given me some excellent resources I second this!

And now she has been declared indigent and so gets a federal public defender. This is so insulting to people who really are indigent. I guess she transferred all of her assets to Nick (bad idea).

Good recommendations here. I would add Stoneliegh to the list with that budget if you like more historic areas.Good schools with county taxes but just across the city line in Towson so close to lots of things.

Magnet, rope, gloves, and a good attitude!

Her only real opinion of the police is that it's a fun Halloween costume, I guess: https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/ygqkt4/soontobeformer_states_attorney_marilyn_mosby_and/

I don't understand why cops don't absolutely LOVE her. She quashed the Freddie Gray uprising by claiming she was going to prosecute the men who killed him, then made sure they weren't convicted. Now the Baltimore police are on a permanent soft strike, they claim because they're afraid of accountability. They really should be grateful to her.

So, MM used to be a line prosecutor. She quit and went to work for an insurance company. Her husband Nick was a city council person, and I guess it was pretty well liked in his district. That gave her name recognition. She ran against the States Attorney who used to be her boss' boss' boss. He was an old white dude named Greg. Greg was pretty good at his job but didn't really connect with Baltimore citizens. MM ran against him and somehow won. She had some companies that people were concerned about. She said essentially that they were inactive. The whole Freddie Gray thing happened on her watch. Whatever your feelings about, she definitely used the national press to get her face on the news and on the cover of some magazines. She botched it pretty seriously. It ruined her relationship with the Baltimore police. She made some other very unpopular decisions like trying Keith Davis over and over. She also made some pretty popular decisions like refusing to prosecute weed possessions, prostitution and some other low level bullshit. Meanwhile, Nick is getting more and more famous and eventually becomes Baltimore City Council president. It comes out that he may not have followed the law when getting campaign donations. He starts a Gofundme to pay for his lawyers. Gets in trouble for that too. MM (on her own or with her husband, who knows) decides right around the time COVID started that she needed a new vacation house. To get the cash for the down-payment, she wants to pull money out of her retirement. Ordinarily you'd have to pay crazy penalties to withdraw before you retire, but a COVID law let you do just that if you signed an affidavit (a document that is under oath) saying you were experiencing financial hardship because of COVID. She made more money during COVID than the year before. The feds said she lied under oath, which is perjury. She got indicted. She claims those inactive companies we mentioned earlier were even less active and that's how she experienced a hardship. Also, her and Nick didn't pay their water bill for like a year and it came out that it was almost 1,000 dollars at one point.
Anyway, she lost the last election to a guy named Ivan. If you watched We Own This City, there's an actor that plays him. He had a role in bringing down GTTF, the subject of the show/novel. He tossed the Keith Davis case and reversed some other MM policies. Before MM leaves office, Nick passes something through city council somehow to thank MM for all her service and say how great she is. It was weird. So, now MM's federal perjury trial approaches. Her lawyers are trying all sorts of crazy things to get the case tossed or moved somewhere else. It's not working. She files a motion saying she's too poor to pay for experts and the judge agrees that the government will pay for them upfront. She has to pay back some of the costs, we dont know how much. One of her lawyers says some dumb shit on the courthouse steps after the judge told him not to and is being charged with criminal contempt. Now the lawyers, all of them, say they can't represent her. The one who is about to be charged with contempt says he'll be too distracted to be effective. The others basically say they were all just supportive people, not there to try the case. MM gets a reprieve and is told she is poor enough to qualify for the representation of the public defenders office. Nick is still city council president.

Exactly, I really don't know how anyone could live with themselves doing that to people. To make matters worse anyone who takes their word will get met with a high pressure salesperson who will rob them blind. We had a customer recently that got a quote for the same equipment we quoted that was double our price.

There are Legal Aid/Public Justice Center attorneys on the third floor of the District Court at 501 E Fayette Street who could probably help you run through your options. This is where Rent Court is, and they are there every day.

Well I thought I understood at least partially what was going on but now I just don't know...

Try Joes Squared. Expensive but I dream about their wing sauce. Ridiculous