Baltimore is a city that’s lost its charm for Mariah Hay. She was a new Baltimorean when she bought property back in 2025. The residence has quickly become her home and workplace, and she used a title company for the purchase.
But in October, the city sent her a notice requesting roughly $1,000 in back property taxes. Hay admits some of the items invoiced are older than the previous owner’s 2016 purchase.
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“We don’t owe this,” she told WMAR-2 News. “That’s why they do the title checks.”
Hay’s notice was one of 50,123 that were sent by the Bureau of Revenue Collections, the Department of Finance (DOF) office that collects taxes and fees. Together, they asked for $504.6 million in water bills, property taxes, citations and other charges…