A number of them will be re-introduced in next year’s legislative session.SB 47-Evidence - Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance - Fair Housing TestingHB 34-Failure to Pay Rent Proceedings - Prohibition on Rent Increases and Shielding of Court RecordsHB 303/SB 757-Baltimore City - Air Conditioning in Residential Rental UnitsHB 166-Workgroup to Study Community Association Standing in Nuisance Actions in Baltimore CountyHB 211-Rental Housing Fund, Calculation of Taxable Income, and Transfer Tax - Alterations (Affordable Housing Investment Act)HB 315/ SB 817-Multifamily Dwellings - Smoking PoliciesHB 577-Human Relations - Discrimination in Housing - Reentry-Into-Society StatusHB 684/SB 504-Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases and Holdover Tenancies - Local Just Cause Termination ProvisionsHB 691/SB 807-Landlord and Tenant - Failure to Repair Serious and Dangerous Defects - Tenant Remedies (Tenant Safety Act)HB 757/SB 919-Real Property - Expedited Wrongful Detainer Proceedings - Property for Sale or LeaseHB 882/SB 770-Landlord and Tenant - Holding Over - Landlord Restrictions and Tenant RemediesHB 972-Landlord and Tenant - Rent Escrow - Mold in Residential Dwelling UnitsHB 1016-Real Property - Residential Lease - Early Termination by TenantHB 1023-Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding OverHB 1163/SB 964-Human Relations - Protections Against Discrimination - Criminal Records

The Rental Agreement should also have a clause regarding "Alterations" not allowed.

Any suggestions on how to alter my strategies in order to create more consistent commercial buyer engagement?

My attorney (in Michigan) states that no lease can be altered by verbal communication.

. , I've seen other landlords alter the rent amount slightly, so you know who is paying what.

Updates include: full aesthetic renovation, complete remodel of kitchen and bathrooms, new expansive front and back porches, slight floor plan alterations, structural repairs, complete electrical rewire and service upsize, all new plumbing throughout, new roof, and all new landscaping.

Obviously this can change if you alter the numbers.

Many of them will just give up half way through, and the problem will work itself out.Obligations of Housing ProvidersIndividuals with a disability may request to keep an assistance animal as a reasonable accommodation to a housing provider’s pet restrictions.Housing providers cannot refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services when such accommodations may be necessary to afford a person with a disability the equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling.The Fair Housing Act requires a housing provider to allow a reasonable accommodation involving an assistance animal in situations that meet all the following conditions:A request was made to the housing provider by or for a person with a disabilityThe request was supported by reliable disability-related information, if the disability and the disability-related need for the animal were not apparent and the housing provider requested such information, andThe housing provider has not demonstrated that:Granting the request would impose an undue financial and administrative burden on the housing providerThe request would fundamentally alter the essential nature of the housing provider’s operationsThe specific assistance animal in question would pose a direct threat to the health or safety of others despite any other reasonable accommodations that could eliminate or reduce the threatThe request would not result in significant physical damage to the property of others despite any other reasonable accommodations that could eliminate or reduce the physical damage

Do not alter it.

Also, there are things that you can do to alter the land that abuts the water that can give added protection, along with the structure itself.