The benefits of a working smoke detector are not hard to imagine. During a five-year period in the US alone, departments responded to over 350,000 residential fires. Whether accidental or intentional, dwelling fires are a significant risk to the safety of occupants, neighbors, and emergency services. In Maryland, new state laws several years ago aimed […]
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As a Baltimore landlord, it is your responsibility to provide safe and healthy living conditions for your tenants. Under a country-wide law known as the implied warranty of habitability (or as in Baltimore refers to it, “implied warranty of fitness“), landlords are required to maintain a rental property that does that not endanger the life, […]