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Seventeen tenants at Sharp Leadenhall Apartments filed a lawsuit, alleging unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
Complaints include infestations, mold, water damage and inadequate security.
Tenants seek rent abatement, repairs and a court-ordered rent escrow account.
Maryland Legal Aid represents residents amid concerns over retaliation from management.
More than a dozen tenants of a Baltimore City apartment have brought a lawsuit against their landlord, alleging dangerous conditions in their apartment complex and seeking to have the city’s district court establish a rent escrow account.
In a complaint filed Tuesday in Baltimore City District Court, 17 tenants of the Sharp Leadenhall Apartments allege the 192-unit, multi-building complex has a variety of unsafe conditio