All Forum Posts by: Christina R.

I thought I had to get a cert of occupancy but I will drill down to see exactly what needs to happen at this stage.  Thanks!

Christina

@Nicole W 

Alright Nicole, I can't get the @ to work with you - hopefully you'll see this.  is the rental inspection necessary when you first need a cert of occupancy.   My rehab is almost done and will get the occupancy inspection soon, do I then need to do a rental inspection on top of that?

If so, please PM me your contact name/#.  Thanks!!

Christina

(no, not THAT kind of grass....)

I have an end unit rowhome that will be up for rental shortly that has about 2 feet between it's exterior side wall and the tall chain link fence for a truck depot facility that is down behind it.  There is a small, approx. 4 x 5 patch in the front that used to be grass and then the back yard.  The house is about 33 feet deep and the property is about 70 feet deep, so there is definitely some "yard" back there.

  The side area I can clean up and I think pretty much leave it.  It gets walked on and is pretty much trampled down.  I thought about doing some colored stone on the front patch and sort of caging it with chicken wire (to hopefully prevent people from picking up the chips and throwing them, etc).   That way no worries on having to weedwhack/mow the front.   The back is what I'm most concerned with.  

This is going to be a section 8 rental in basically a C, C- area of Baltimore.  When it's ready for occupancy, I just want to do serious tenant screening and get it rented.    Should I really care about the back yard?  Around here it's mostly concrete but I'm not going to spend the $ on concreting the entire yard areas (at least not at this point).   I'm still having a hard time looking at this first project without my homeowner glasses on....

Any suggestions on what to do?  Thanks in advance for any replies.

Sorry, everyone, for the lateness of the post - today was a busy one

click on this link to read -- The White Paper

Maybe @Account Closed can chime in here; the Dominion Group in Baltimore owns 500+ rentals throughout the city and has created a White Paper that they are going to forward up to HUD outlining the negatives of going to a SAFMR system. Obviously they have a vested interest in this however it is true that this will affect all landlords citywide. I have read the White Paper, which makes great points, and will post it a link to it if Mark says it's ok, because I viewed it through access to a mail-list group of his I belong to.

@Will Barnard

 congratulations and I'm sure you feel the weight of the world finally slipping off your shoulders.  I would be most appreciative if after you've had a chance to process everything you take a few moments to detail exactly what happened in court yesterday.  I would love to hear what the "attorney" attempted to pull off that finally was DENIED.

Congrats again!

Lois -

Welcome to the BP Nation!  I'm sure you made some good networking starts at MAREIA last night and I encourage you to attend the BWI Meetup on Wednesday, May 12th-- > you can fine information on it here.    With all that is going on in Baltimore at the moment, I'm sure it will be doubly informative this coming month.

@Anil Samuel

 - is this is a CHAP area and/or subject to rehab restrictions?

http://www.meetup.com/bwimeetup

@ned carey 

@Ned Carey is your man to answer this one. Glad you are back.. I think you were on a podcast right when I discovered BP...