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Article: Crowd condemns ground rent system: Many express anger at public meeting attended by 200.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- January 9, 2007
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Byline: June Arney
Jan. 9--Outrage and frustration spilled out last night at a public meeting on ground rent and tax sale property seizures in Baltimore that drew about 200 people. "I think it's a disgrace that they haven't stopped the practice of ground rent," said Ron Weaver, an investor who told others attending the forum at the Polytechnic Institute/Western High School auditorium that he had to pay fees many times his ground rents for his properties after a new ground rent owner took over.
"I've been involved in property for 30-something years, and I've never seen a case where you could lose your property with no hearing of any kind," he said ...