Home buyer crushed after Baltimore City deed processing delays sabotage real estate deal

Home buyer crushed after Baltimore City deed processing delays sabotage real estate deal

THE BALTIMORE CITY FINANCEDEPARTMENT.

WMAR-2 NEWSMALLORY SOFASTAII REPORTED ONTHIS BACKLOG LAST MONTH.

SHEHAS AN UPDATE ON WHERE THINGSSTAND NOW ... BECAUSE IF ITMATTERS TO YOU ..MATTER FOR MALLORY.LAST MONTHSTILL WORKING ON DEEDSSUBMITTED IN OCTOBER..NOW THEYSAY THEY'VE JUST CAUGHT UP TOFEBRUARY 1ST.

BUT THAT DOESN'THELP THE HOME BUYERS WHO ARNOW MOVING THEIR SEARCHESELSEWHERE AFTER DELAIMPACTED DEALS.

HER ENTHUSIASMIS GONE....MOVING PLACANCELLED.

TAMARA 10:08 Ibummed.

I really gotexcited about that TAMARAROBINSON MADE IT TO THE FINISHLINE OF CLOSING ON HER FOREVERHOME ..

UNTIL DELAYS ANDISSUES FORCED THE SALE TO FALLTHROUGH TAMARA 10:16 ita break up and theytakes half the time of therelationship to get over it soit might take me a good 45days to really get over itDURING THAT 90- DAYRELATIONSHIP SHE COMMITTED TOBUYING HER FIRST- EVER HOME INWAVERLY.

THE FOODBALTIMORE.

NOW ITGOVERNMENT DRIVING HER AWAY.TAMARA 3:16 the window justkeep closing and closing andclosing WHEN WE SPOKE WITHTAMARA IN JANUARYCOULDN'T CLOSE BECAUSE THECITY HADNSELLIT IN THE FALL.

WE WERE ABLETO HELP GET THE PROPERTY INFRONT OF THE FINANCEDEPARTMENT.

TAMARA :53 soafter the piece aired A.

Wegot a lot more informationthen ever before :08 THE CITYPROCESSED THE DEED ON JANUARY21ST.

THE COURT FOUND ERRORSSO MAILED IT BACK TO THE TITLECOMPANY.

BUT AFTER WEEKS OFWAITING THE DEED NEVERARRIVED.

TAMARA 2:22 and weput a final deadline on howlong we would both wait andthat deadline came and went:08 3:51 if the city hadprocessed it back at least inthe fall then we woulda lot more time to resolve adiscrepancies :13 WE ALSOCHECKED IN WITH LAKESIDE TITLCEO YVONNE DEARDORFF WHO HADBEEN WAITING ON A NEARLY 750-THOUSAND DOLLAR CHECK FROEARLY NOVEMBER TO CLEAR.YVONNE :53 It actually wentrecord March 4th DEARDORFFSAID SHE'S SEEN SOMEIMPROVEMENTS YVONNE 2:09they're going on record, likeyou said, we have some fromearly February but we haveothers that are still backfrom October and November :SHE SAID THE CITY'S POORCOMPUTER SYSTEM -- SMALL STA-- COVID -- AND VOLUME OF REALESTATE TRANSACTIONS WERE ARECIPE FOR DISASTER.

SHE KNOWSTHE CITY CAN DO BETTER ..

ANDIS TIRED OF EXPLAINING DELAYSTO CLIENTS YVONNE 7:20 They gooh, it's Baltimore City, weget it, everything's slow inthe city, and it shouldn't bethat way.

It's a veryimportant department, it's agreat source of revenue forthe city :10 7:34 it canaffect the consumer so itreally is something thshould get in order :04 TAMARA7:01 if people have troublegetting in the door theygoing to go to other places.

Ihavenin the city because all of theamazing things I said beforethat made me want to live herestill exist, so Itrying to figure out if I hathe stamina to go through thiprocess again* TAMARA SAIDWHEN SHE DOES START HOUSEHUNTING AGAIN -- SHE'S GOITO EXPAND HER SEARCH TO OTHERCITIES.

AND BALTIMORE CITY ISWORKING ON IMPLEMENTING NEWSOFTWARE TO SPEED UP THEPROCESS.

THE GO LIVE DATE FORTHE AUTOMATED SYSTEM IS LATEMAY-EARLY JUNE.THAT SYSTEM IS THE LAND RECORDE-RECORDING PROGRAM USEDTHROUGHOUT THE STATE.

MOSTJURISDICTIONS HAD THEIRPROGRAMS IN PLACE BY DECEMBEROF 2019 -- INCLUDING BALTIMORECOUNTY, ANNE ARUNDEL, HARFOAND HOWARD COUNTIES.

A CITYSPOKESPERSON SAID... COMPAREDWITH OTHER JURISDICTIONS,BALTIMORE CITY HAS THE LARGESTNUMBER OF REAL PROPERTYPARCELS, THE LARGEST NUMBER OFTRANSFER TRANSACTIONS AND THEFEWEST TRANSFER ANDRECORDATION TAX EXEMPTIONS.AND THE COMPLEXITY OF PROPERTYTRANSFERS AND VOLUME INCREASEDTHE IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE INBALTIMORE CITY.

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