Hundreds of Baltimore homeowners are learning their properties still carry vacant building notices, and clearing that status could cost thousands of dollars.
Robin and Jerome Richburg bought their Baltimore home in 2020. Six months after closing, they discovered the city still classified the property as vacant. The seller had never obtained a use and occupancy permit, and the home still carried a vacant building notice.
“This is something that you post on houses that are boarded up. Our house clearly isn’t boarded up. We have porch furniture, you can tell that a family is here. In the springtime, we have flowers outside, so to see a vacant building notice [on our front door] it’s just like, what?” Robin Richburg said…