Baltimore Slumlord Watch
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2014
- Carol Ott, a 45-year-old mother of two, spends her days documenting every abandoned property she can find in Baltimore. She posts photos along with landlords' names and addresses on her blog, Baltimore Slumlord Watch. We spent a day with her in West Baltimore as she walked the streets in search of vacants.
Full article: theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/12/the-hunt-for-baltimores-slumlords/282483/
Baltimore Slumlord Watch: slumlordwatch.wordpress.com/
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What a lot of people don’t understand is these row homes have a unique history behind them. I urge you to read ‘The Baltimore Rowhouse.’ A well written book on the row homes of Baltimore. Finally, you mentioned ‘white flight.’ I argue high taxes, no manufacturing, drugs and fatherless homes created the perfect storm for Baltimore which caused its ‘flight’ of their citizens. This type of problem affects all races. Mahalo
The date on this is Jan 2014 which proves Baltimore has been begging for years !!
Gotta Get Rid of the Two & Four Leg RATS !
the four leggeds are the less problem
cnccarving 😁🤓🤗 Best comment. Absolutely goddamn right. 👏👍💯
Anyone have a picture of ole Eli’s home?
When i was a kid every one of those houses in that area sw.balto.21223 was occupied. There were no vacant houses it breaks my heart to even drive through there any more...
At 3:05 of the video I see you are walking up the 200 bk of Furrow St 21223. If you think it looked bad then you need to see it now.
Questions what happened do you Know??where are the people??
New to West Baltimore cold Springs here
@@melaninsupremacy1252 My guess is local industries left to China or else where. No jobs so the people left.
Hey Elijah Cummings...
Fight for Baltimore like
You do for MEXICO! ☻
Great and true comment....THANK YOU!!!
Cummings should be locked up 16 Billion dollars last year this is his district he cares about Illegals enough is enough .
Facts..... get this Beautiful City...back up and running.....not sure...but an Organization named.....N.A.C.A.....Neighbood Assistance Corporation America...check it out... excellent program...they will work with you all the way...first time Home buyers...no$down.... owners get help with your Mortgage....all States...must register for workshop....my best good luck ..hey..I got dibs on that first Dinner...
Awesome Statement.. Thank you..
RIP
MAKE BALTIMORE LIVEABLE BALTIMORE IS A NIGHTMARE
Aiesha Ajibade
Make Baltimore great again
that type of change comes from no outside source. it starts at the family dinner table. 16 billion dollars of our hard earned tax money - so obviously something else is wrong. try voting red for once.
Tom Hinmo The GOP allocates 700 billion to the military industrial complex while slashing funding for schools, healthcare and infrastructure. Your brain has conked out.
@@fauxmanchu8094 i know youre nice and cozy and comfy living in the best place on earth but it is easy to take for granted. a good proprtion of the countries in the world a f'n nuts. russia china n korea iran (entire middle east) etc. etc. if you think taking our guard down with military budget is smart - think again. probably why we just made investments in it, because its important (safety is #1 priority). as for school (public union teachers $$ just goes in their pockets, need to privatize school system, ranked low math and sci now. healthcare, remove state lines and increase competition by 50X = problem solved. infrastructure...yeah, because all the taxes now to fix the roads look how great they are .smarten up. $ doesnt solve problems.)
@@tomsmith2215 Tom boy , here is inbred trash, hes needing his oxys, , , hes like that dude on Deliverance. best woman he ever had was ned beaty.
Why would they fix it when the neighbors are going to brick the windows next week?
Sell those houses for $1.00 each! The guy from Quicken Loans bought a LOT of houses in Detroit. Sell them to the residents of Baltimore. Here is your 40 acres and a mule!!
@Justine carrington they did that in Wash DC, 30-40yrs ago. And offered cheap loans to fix em up, residency required.
These homes are beautiful now,.
Mrs Ott I applaud you. I lost all my belongings as well as stuff handed down thru time.... I took this slumlord to court an he had 30 health an safety violations. An I told the judge he will not fix anything. She said pay him or be held in contempt of court. So I had to pay him an he did nothing but try an evict us again. I kept calling an seeing Mayor Stefanie Rollins-Blake to finally getting them to pay first monthes rent an security deposit. We wound up living in a hotel for 5 monthes. My Mum was on oxygen 24/7/365 with copd an I have an autistic son with Asperger's. An now PTSD from a nother slumlord who took to harassing us just cuz we asked for a refrigerator. They tried to evict us they turned off our electric an then hot water a week later. BTW these are church ppl. I rent above a church from the pastor. They tried to evict me an never gave me my court date an time. So I got it postponed. Then the judge sees they have no record of ever having a license to rent. So the day B4 the new court date an inspector comes an they (church ppl) fail due to my electric being off an the water heater is connected backwards. The judge the next day told my slumlord the case was dismissed with prejudice. Now they have to pay me my $ back..... Due to new rule as of January 1st 2019.all landlords must pass inspection to have a license to rent said property..... Thanks Mrs Ott
Thank you for what you do ..
Omg just believe this is same naberhood I grew up in when most nabers looked out hoping one another . I can still pitcher my mom and other ladys in our block of south pulaski street setting out drinking coffee in the mornings there was no vacant homes bourded up. Everyone respected and helped one another. It's just soo sad seeing this vidio but brings back alot of great memories
"I have no grand illusion of myself." Everything I heard her say tells me otherwise.
Baltimore has been this way long before Trump was even president.
The irony is, these buildings and neighborhoods are beutiful... I see potential...
The people need to contact whoever is in charge of that district,and make them accountable,contact whoever Mayor so they can contact these slumlords and if the don't do anything about their property tear them down😷🌏🌍🌎 Be Safe Be Well
May God bless Carol Ott.
How many homes in Baltimore does Cummings own?? In the slums And does he take care of them???
May 2022. I was born in Baltimore, grew up south Baltimore locust point, ! I can not believe this video , so jump to adulthood mayor Shaffer had this plan to fix this problem called Dollar Houses!! I bought my first house waz a DOLLAR!!
3 storys, corner fayette st. There were rules but great
Opportunity! Why not start that again !! Allowing the people who can not afford to buy a home , ! Can not tell you the PRIDE I had walking out front door , looking up my 3 story house that I paid for ! Cash. No certified check I think! There was low interest at certian banks to help poor people out ! Regular bank loan I could not get ! But these special loans for low income people worked ,I learned things with my $1 house without that I would never know ! Across my side street was as every corner has in Baltimore a bar a rowdy bar ! But with communication with owners worked together ! I'm very SAD to see Baltimore look like that !
You could only buy 1 house and had to live in it 5 years , get your own financing to repair house , without that program I would have never bought a house ! When it's yours not rental you care , about house, neighbors, neighbor hood , and what happens to it ! Why not bring it back !!
It makes me sick to think entire neighborhoods are all gone !!! Come on Baltimore your BETTER THEN THAT !!!
And thank you for showing us !!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
keep up the good work thx
People live there. I grew up in a boarded house over on East Chase st. I’d move back there to.
Thank you for sharing and upload this video. This video is indeed an eye-opener for me. After all am currently dealing with a Karen Slumlord
You’re full of it. Baltimore was fabulous in the late seventies. Even the eighties was ok.
Slumlord, Slumlord. Dammed those slumlord are everywhere around the Globe/Countries
How many centuries old are these houses? thanks
I lived in Little Italy in Baltimore as a kid in the 50's. Tough times back then but I can tell you that the Yo Boyz stayed out. They knew better than to come into our neighborhood and trash us. We took care of our own. None of the riff-raff you see throughout the city today.
I agree. Whose gonna fuck with Italians
no one is going to do anything about it its going to spread more and more until its completely out of hand
I knew there was people who lived in that community. I was told as a 7yr old to never go across that street or else that was it. Later on in life I found out about LITTLE ITALY.
I use to hang on Liberty Heights and Garrison...Wow... I am in Florida.
Liberty Heights and Fairview here
Hope and Change. Haha. Where was Obama during all of this?
Worried about muslims.
I thought there was a hair on my screen.
I call for a Federal investigation into the misue of Federal funds by E. CUMMINS, Baltimore City and State officials. Where did this money go? To what projects? Where are the bills from contractors that can be audited and used for payment. I highly want to know the names of all who participated in these projects and approved the expenditures. Want to see the bank records for every single person from Cummins on down to verify they didnt take money. People, call for this investigation, otherwise you will continue be worked by your representatives. They do not care or give a dam about younger your children. You can live in rat and trash infested neighhorhoods while they live in their upscale homes. It up to you.
City council renovated and bought swanky high-end furniture with emergency federal funds allocated for renovations. One look at the expense accounts and it is obvious these people are wasting the money on themselves! it is so gross .A city council member was buying themselves weekly groceries!!They just scream Racism and people stop asking questions...because it works!
so sad!
The truth is the senator is the prime person responsible for helping, not the president. It amazes me that Baltimore's senator Elijah Cummings, cares more about the Mexican border than the district that he is responsible for. Elijah Cummings can change how Baltimore is ran.... At lease that is what he gets paid to do.... Lets hold the right people accountable....
Cummings is not a senator he's a so called congressman
@Justine carrington Yes Ma'am Elijah Cummings is in congress, however, he is the senator of the Baltimore district.
Mr. Cummings is a congressman, not a senator.
How about asking Ivanka husband to fix his buildings? He is the slumlord!
You can't blame owners for holding onto the property. It's not worth investing all the remodeling costs when no one is going to live there or no one will pay rent to live in these neighborhoods.
She doesn't know why nobody is moving in. I think these homes don't have a kitchen/Lr/bathroom; You know the basics that make it a home. She must Live under a bridge or in a teepee.
No jobs, opportunities, programs for kids, high crime, supermarkets, let's have some babies.. Makes sense .
Nice city... I loved it when I visited. I wouldn't live there though...
I see you were writing Smallwood and McHenry St.'s on you envelope. I know one thing about that neighborhood, It is pretty much an open air Dope area. And there are hundreds more throughout the city. I'm sure that is one of the problems now. I use to work for a "So called" Slum Lord. We did good work on the properties and the tenants would always trash the place. Most of them "Not all" would never take care of the place, Never have rent on time, and have people running in and out of the house selling or using drugs. Sad to say , But True. Anyway, Very Nice Video and Great Job Carol Ott. GOD BLESS You, your family, The City of Baltimore, President Trump, and GOD BLESS AMERICA too !!!
I was thinking to come Baltimore from DC ???
These videos are getting more coverage thanks to the President..
Keep people in their homes by passing some sort of a rent freeze law or limit to no more than 4% yearly hike?
@Ken MacDonald HUH? How am I stealing anything from anyone? Our rent goes uo 21% in 18 months and in that case maybe we're the victims!
@Ken MacDonald I see your point. Next year the property will probably be worth 1800.00 a month, and so on..
We just feel that too many large rent increases in a short time is unfair, especially when the owner hasn't addresses any of the "fixit" problems with her property.
Her investment is worth whatever she can get out of it with no concern for her loyal tenants! Wow! Great business.
@Ken MacDonald We care what we feel about rapid and large (21%) rent increases, of course. Like a sticker shock. The previous owner was a bit more considerate with increases, about 5% a year is what we were accustomed to. I always pay four days before due date, fix things that the owner lets slide and keep good neighbor relations. Now we worry about gentrification while watching the homeless population explode around here. We actually found property to buy in Oregon so yes, we're moving outta here. L.A. is being unaffordable for us. Thanks for your insights, although I can't agree with the "thief" part!
@Ken MacDonald I didn't vote Dem! Hahaha of we pay our rent and go about our lives here in town like all the others around here do. I tried to explain to you that 21% rent hike was a shock to us, on a fixed income, but if that seems ok to you, so be it. Good Luck Sir!
I certainly would not want to deny someone their right to make a profit from their investments, but a little consideration never hurts! We expect another rent increase in December, we can't keep up, so hopefully outta here before then.. Take care.
im very interested in renovating a condo. I see that the city has a lot of them for sale. when I seen this video and walked through the communities. I said "this is it", this is home. please reach out to me. thank you for your video. it was amazing. these are some of the best properties in the world to me. just need love and care.
Isaiah Smith if more people thought this way the city would never had ended up like this. not to be a downer, but i think it would be so hard to sell a property in these neighborhoods. a beautiful home is worth nothing to most people if the area is poor and crime ridden to most people. sad but true imo
Oh really? You 2 think its so easy to fix this!! Are you forgetting about the drug dealers and the gangs?!!! That's why the people left they were fed up with the drugs and gang violence!!! It's still going on!!! it's going to take an army to clean this ghetto up!!!
Who knew? Property owners want to destroy their own properties. Uh huh
This is very disturbing. Much has been made of vacant housing in China yet news about the same conditions in Baltimore went silent for years. At least Chinese cities are new and vacant.
This video was done 6 years ago and it's still a slum
All she wants to do is give the landlords a bad name. At a time when we need more landlords to come into Baltimore and revitalize this beautiful city.
Landlords don't give a shit about revitalization. They're in business to make a profit. Don't delude yourself.
Why should people attack people who want to try to help ..it not right back them is what they should do...
IS ABOUT TIME SOME PPL OPEN THERE EYES HOPE THEY DO SOMETHINK ABOUT THIS DIRTY RATE HOLD CITY
I am not an American citizen. I'm French Australian and yes I am a conservative. I grew up in one of the most violent countries in the World and I don't want to see you wonderful Americans go down that same track. Life is very complicated, politics can be crazy at times. What bothers me is the void that is growing between the left and right. Once upon a time we used to be able to work together for the benefit of our countries. I look at both sides. The right is full of greed, the left is becoming totally intolerant. Where does that leave normal people like me? If we can't find a way to fix this, the West is headed for total destruction. We have to cooperate to help our countries. Or we are lost. Roy Guster God bless you.
The question is, why aren't they going after the slum owners of these properties that allow these blights to sit unattended in the city. That's always been a big issue, in addition to Baltimore government misappropriating funds and focusing on projects that bought in $$ in 'certain' communities... Long, long ago, these owners should have been given a short timeline to take care of their properties or the city would tear them down. Never happened. Brandon (new Mayor) 2021, puleez fix this!!
My family owns at least two properties that you have walked past in your video and yes it sounds good in theory but when you have very young children and have your screen door shut and someone gets killed right on your front in broad daylight on that same day it may cross your mind you just might want to move your small children out of that house base so they don't see it be so they don't remember it and see so they do not get shot and killed themselves just outside playing with a toy
Very good straggedy
Hey dems, why don't y'all fight for the cities y'all live in, instead of worrying about Mexico so much!
Thank you Elijah Cummings
The people who own the property should fix it. But the left the property and want people to forget it. The city should fine the owner and sell these properties or demolish them.
It’s urban decay Is what caused me to leave Baltimore because It was the root cause of the crime in Baltimore City
I guess that didn't work..
12 of my family members have been evicted from there homes because of the cities government and the landlords. It’s fuckin sad
Ken MacDonald nah. It was in poor living conditions. The landlord didn’t give a fuck. My family paid everything in time. But the city kicked me out cause it was unsafe to live in.
She up in the vacants yo
I live it here for 22 years now want to all schools here all that Baltimore have no houses here
Its probably cheaper for the owners to keep properties in disrepair & take a tax write off year after year. Change the law!
She wants to blame property owners for this😂
Post the owners names.
“Not in my neighborhood “
The work this woman does is so important. She is brave to go alone into devastated neighborhoods. Maybe some of the landlords will be shamed and do something about their buildings.
True!
There's a guy named seth sherman he was arrested for stealing from his own tenents
2015
He was busted for lead paint
Dept of environment
He was arrested for essential services
Look up his name on u tube
How is this the property owners' fault???
Because when you own property you have to maintain it to a particular standard that the city sets.
@@Hurricaneintheroom Even if nobody lives there? I dont think so
This woman doesn't know what a slumlord is. If someone rented some of these homes in bad condition without maintaining them, then they would be slumlords. The owners aren't slumlords they are warehousing their properties (which isn't productive, I know.) The state of the neighborhood isn't their fault. It was the destructive power of the crime and depravity that degraded the neighborhood, so that the majority of inhabitants, who were decent and non criminal found it so hard to live there they had to flee. This is what happens when a location is economically abandoned in the first place.
A fire didnt help, it never recovered from that
This person is absolutely clueless. Its not as if this is news to anyone, and no, its not easily wrapped up into one simple reason, and certainly not simply due to "white flight in the 60s". She's expecting a call from a property owner to say "i'm so sorry I did this" ????Please, by all means, DO hold your breath.
What a disgrace.
Owning houses there is a waste of money and effort.... renters just destroy them.. all those houses are over 100 years old and not worth living in...
Ill buy them things up
Jahiem Witmore if you want a lesson in Baltimore watch the Wire
I live here and they will tie you up with so much political red tape and bureaucratic bullshit you will regret buying one damn house here
hey Lei Fei - don't forget the druggies who will rob you blind
I think the City should tear down these old home and rebuild them or just turn them into neighborhood gardens that the residents would run. They can also sell the veggies/fruits they grow at the B'more farmers market
It should be a property law, that if you own property. That you alow to be derelict. Run down health hazard, crime magnet. Squatter refuge. Will be forced to sell to some one who will take care of it. Developers it, and if not the property would be forfeited, sold at auction or given to charitable organizations like habitat for humanity. To black lives matter, to rehab for thryre local COMUNITY.
I bet y'all there's more to this than what we see.I'll be researching.stop seems wrong
The tenants probably never paid the rent.
These buildings could be renovated.
@Ken MacDonald That's a stupid reply. I am 69 and disabled.so you can't make a suggestion unless you have money. I lost my retirement acct during the recession when my husband's job left town.I grew up in Park Slope Brooklyn and some row houses were renovated by the govt and they looked very nice.
Even weeds grow in the gutters.
Does Elijah Cummings have any Baltimore real estate dealings? Perhaps he should release his tax returns.🤔
2019 now and worse than ever
So wait, she blames this on property owners????
Mr corrupt Cummingswheres the 16 billion dollars for Baltimore
Why doesn't the City Council act against these slum lords? Politics in Baltimore has always been crazy and unique. But when the politicians allow this wilfull destruction to occur - which negatively affects the City's bottom line in multiple ways, more is said about the political leadership than the slum lords. Understandable why there has been flight out of the City. Darn shame!
So the property owners are those solely responsible? It is Illegal to own property and let it sit vacant? City's and political engines and laws have no role to play in the matter?
Baltimore matter'$ , Philadelphia matter$ , Chicago , Jersey California matter'$
Elijah Cummings is another Hillary instead of helping people they help themselves ,one ripped Haiti and the other ripped Baltimore
This is no diffrent then the 20,30,40,50,60,70,80, its just 2019 the same thing going on in this nation till this day money and drugs rule the day oh and crime
Trump smump everybody blaming trump. You knock over a glass of milk....damn trump? Its humans period. Humanity has lost way. The true meaning & purpose God gave to us. Is passed over to the devil. Unity is the key. Care & to love each other & all of life's creation. Once we rise to the top of that. Then we can do much greater as humans. But sadly not this life time. But y'all will see the light soon. 2025
@tomtolbert32 Crazy thing it's design that way. They throw out the bait. And as people taking it in. So that's there way of wheeling humans in for failure
If a slumlord exists, city should take away their property and put them up for auction to local community residents with the understanding that they will rehab the properties with the partnership of HUD and Habitat For Humanity.
Sounds good.
Doesn't change the fact that the industrial jobs that BUILT BALTIMORE are gone overseas. So it would only be a matter of time until the city would have to bail them out or buy the properties back because there's no jobs for the residents to pay the bills.
If you fix up the area, then it becomes desirable to live in, which in turn raises property values and rents.
You need JOBS.
You want a good laugh, look up "squeegee boys Baltimore".
The mayor says it can teach them a lesson about business. Fucking idiot. Rule #1 of business, don't offer an obsolete service. I have a little button that I can press and it does a better job than a "squeegee boy" or see; "soft mugging".
The cities LEADERSHIP is a FUCKING JOKE, SO THEREFORE BALTIMORE IS A FUCKING JOKE.
Also, when properties are up for sale, the sellers don't accept financing. They insist on cash-only, so the properties stay out of the hands of people who live there.
This is America. Dam shame.
Bet Elijah Cummings owns them
WHAT THE HELL BALTIMORE MAJOR DOING VERY SHAME
Slumlord watch, evidently Cummings wasn't watching,he was blind sided when Trump called him out for decades of neglect on his part of his job! He Cummings should resign!
Do you seriously want to blame this mess on out of town landlords? You’ve got to be kidding me. Look no further than your own left-wing city council and mayor. That’s where the blame belongs.
outbackeddie shit rolls downhill...
Oh you're burly enough....
What about when the owners have died or have been moved by their children to elderly care facilities? It sounds like she believes only evil owners who purposely keep the buildings vacant are involved.
racism - racism - racism
Leave my Rats alone ????racist ?? They have rights ???
There are 9,000 buildings on the westside of Baltimore that are owned by the Kushner family so Trump needs to talk to his son in law
@Ken MacDonald I never said it was a scandal but the Kushner family are landlords of the buildings in those neighborhoods on the westside and they do not fix those apartments up so they are nothing but slumlords