Department of Public Revenue
The raucous celebration to commemorate the collection of the lost rent was interrupted by a letter from the Baltimore Department of Public Works. The city fined me for having trash in my backyard. Well, not really my backyard, it’s my tenant’s backyard.
I stopped by today to have her clean it up and she wasn’t there so I went around back to see the offending trash and I found a broken TV laying on top of a deflated children’s swimming pool. At first I thought, wow, this lady is throwing away TVs twice the size of mine, and upgrading to TVs three times the size of mine!
The other thing that struck me was the fact that I practically had to wade through giant mounds of trash, old furniture, and other assorted debris just to get to the alley behind the house. I wonder who fines the city when they leave trash in the public alleys.