Doing it yourself is a couple hundred dollars but you won't know if you did it correctly until it gets tested in court, at which point it will be too late.

Requires a landlord to first apply any tenant payment to rent before applying the payment toward other charges.Prohibits continued tenancy and relief from forfeiture to be conditioned upon tenant payment or satisfaction of any monetary amount other than rent.Provides the court with discretion to provide relief from forfeiture or to stay a writ of restitution.Requires a landlord to provide a tenant with documentation regarding any damages for which the landlord intends to retain any of the deposit amount.

Check with your local Housing Court, they may have a prepared form for you to use.

I work for a contractor that handles new construction work in the Windsor-Essex, and Chatham-Kent areas. 

Or if we meet at lunch time we could meet at a mall food court - that way everyone could get whatever food they want and we could move together as many tables as we need.Please tag or reach out to others that we should invite and ask for their input.

In Maryland everything you need to know about a property can be found online... from SDAT property and ownership info to mdlandrec.net for land records to MD Judiciary case search for court records to county property tax records, etc.

The court date is pending so nothing has no one has been charged yet.

(Oh and I do plan on taking my contractor to small claims court, as an attorney has advised me that civil court costs will run more than my budget allows.)Any other suggestions would be helpful.

They can't attach your property that's legally sold without some kind of court action, and selling property in anticipation of an adverse judgement is not the same thing as attempting to circumvent bankruptcy or similar laws.

Bad tenant filed answers all lies; i prepared all the documents and brought today to show to judge.Lawyer said hearing is delayed one week from now and go back to court in next week.Anybody has similar experience like me to delay hearing?