Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown filed a civil case on behalf of the state in Wicomico County Circuit Court Friday against the manager of a Lower Eastern Shore rental property company, who, according to the complaint, allegedly sexually harassed five women in recent years, including soliciting sexual acts for reduced rent payments. The property manager,
SPRING VALLEY ‒ Efforts by the property owners to prevent vagrants from entering the burned-down Evergreen Court Home from Adults have fallen short. Despite a court agreement, the owners have failed to secure the property on Lafayette Street and hire security guards. Vagrants were recently able to reenter the poorly fenced-off property and make themselves
Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst’s office will no longer increase a homesteaded property’s taxable value for routinely replacing a roof after two homeowners successfully challenged the practice. Despite the homeowners’ successful challenge to the property appraiser’s interpretation, homeowners who have seen their property values raised over the past decade-plus for new roofs can’t expect
James W. Pfister The right to property in our English legal tradition goes back before the Magna Carta of 1215 in the age of feudalism. The famous Article 39 of the Magna Carta states as relevant here: “No free man shall be … disseised … unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by
Inflation, undersupply, high demand and exorbitant home prices are often reasons cited for why rents are high. But there’s another few people talk about, rampant fraud. Since the pandemic, rental fraud has exploded nationwide. Nearly all respondents (93.3%) to a survey of members of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and the National Apartment Association