Article: Mirror Comment: Ground rent farce.(Leader)

Article: Ground rent bills advance: House approves reform ...
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  March 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... legislation, spurred largely by cases of ground rent holders who levied hefty fees and seized ... homeowners can lose their houses over back ground rent. Other bills would prevent ground rent holders from selling leases without first ...

Article: Ground rent reform plan set: Measures to be ...
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  February 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Martin O'Malley today to unveil a ground rent reform package that would make sweeping ... Christmas over what began as a $24 ground rent debt. "We heard the cry, and we responded ... documented how a few of the largest ground rent owners in Maryland have used state laws ...

Article: Ground rent package receives OK: Details of lease ...
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  April 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... approval yesterday to bills to create a ground rent registry and make it more difficult ... handful of "no" votes. Reforming ground rent rose to near the top of the legislative ... session after The Sun reported that ground rent owners had been awarded at least 521 ...

Article: Ground-rent owners rush to file suits: Flurry of ...
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 1--Even though a state law ending ground-rent ejectments takes effect today, Baltimore ... more than 300 new ones filed in June as ground-rent owners rushed to get cases logged in ... permitting them. "I would hope that ground-rent owners would be willing to work out ...

Article: Ground rent bill expected to pass: Legislation ...
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  January 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the General Assembly, with even the ground rent owners agreeing to support the measure ... at the first legislative hearing on ground rent reform. "Do away with new residential ... change broader aspects of the existing ground rent system will sail through as easily as ...

Article: Ground rent at top of agenda: Key legislators to ...
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  January 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... time has come for us to sunset this ground rent business," Senate president pro tempore ... discussed include: --Prohibiting ground rent owners from taking someone's house ... redeemed by homeowners or disappear if the ground rent owners don't register their ownership ...

Article: Ground rent bills assailed: Measures to alter ...
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  March 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: June Arney Mar. 5--Ground rent owners and some legal scholars contend ... proposed bills to change the state's ground rent system are unconstitutional. They have ... seizing people's homes because of unpaid ground rent. The constitutional challenges have ...