To the long distance landlords, Who is your "boots on the ground" person?  What is your employment relationship with them?  Are they a formal employee?  Contractors?  Vendors?  Is there a way to structure the work to ...

I've been looking into the ground rent system recently. (If you've never heard of it, google it. It's a fascinating and completely messed up system that's leftover from Maryland's colonial days and is in serious need ...

This is very Baltimore specific - fellow Baltimore real estate owners, what is your experience with ground rent?  Do you pay it with escrow or just directly to lease owner?  I just found that a ground rent owner is re...

Dear All,I am purchasing a Baltimore city property from an owner. We will close in next Friday, but today, we realized it's a leasehold property (subject to ground rent) instead of fee simple. However, the owner has n...

Hi I recently acquired 3 properties with ground rent.  One does not seem to be registered in the SDAT database, the other two I would like to redeemAccording to the law: The amount to redeem your ground rent is set by...

Hello BP,After beginning my buy and hold investing strategy a little over a year ago, I am just starting to realize some of the problems and pitfalls that I was too careless or inexperienced to even think of.    I sub...

I own a commercial property that I still have a note on. My question is can I do a long term(20 yrs) ground lease; built to suit and then sell that contract to another party? And if so who would pay the taxes of the ...

I bought a property in March of this year, and can't get a hold of the ground rent owner.  What would you do in this situation?I've looked up the ground rent owner and it is a poorly reviewed property manager company ...

Does anyone know what percentage of properties in Baltimore is on rent ground? I understand it's "common"--does it mean we can expect over half are on rent ground? Is it vast majority or about even split? Another ques...

I have a property in Baltimore that's completely paid off but is ground rent. I have already been approved for ground rent redemption but have to wait another 90 days before I can pay the amount due according to the c...