@Lathea Morris The retail space is fitted for food use, and is occupied by a credit tenant that pays 1/2 of the taxes for the entire building, plus 50% of any increase over the base year.

And I would take any article by the Guardian with a tremendous grain of salt given their far left of center stances and belief in Keynesian interventions in markets.  

Can you give me some pointers and food for thought before I purchase so I can see if this is our cup of tea?

Water filtration, gas pumps (no gas available for cars or food transportation) the Internet, lights, refrigeration would all be offline for months while the grid is brought back on.

There were old dishes in the dishwasher (not clean) and old food in the cabinets.

It's free and there's food, so, that's good too.

Food for thought.  

I have hard data that I can analyze into categories for expenses like fuel costs, boat expenses, food, etc 3.

4.How about the main food items of Barbados?

There are many different grants and credits available in Baltimore depending on what you are looking at doing, so I would recommend taking some time to really do research and physically step food in some of the areas.