Everything you're responsible for as a landlord in Maryland

Maryland Late Fee Cap 2025: Late Fees Can't Exceed 5% of the Unpaid Rent

A Maryland landlord who kept charging a 5% late fee the same way after October 1, 2025 could be charging more than the law allows, even without changing the percentage at all. The cap itself is still 5%. What changed is the number that 5% gets calculated against.

Maryland Eviction Notice Law 2025: Landlords Must Give Written Notice 6 Days Before a Scheduled Repossession

A Maryland landlord who gets the 6-day notice period right can still lose an eviction to a technicality if they can't later prove the notice went out properly. This law builds in a specific, three-part evidence structure for exactly that reason, and a landlord who skips one piece of it has no fallback if a tenant or a sheriff challenges whether notice actually happened.

Maryland Landlord Entry Notice Law 2025: 24 Hours' Written Notice Required Before Entering an Occupied Unit

A Maryland landlord who read early coverage of this entry notice bill may have walked away with the wrong numbers entirely. The version that actually passed shortened the proposed notice period and widened the proposed entry hours from what was originally drafted, and a landlord still operating off that earlier version is following rules that were never enacted.

Maryland Tenants' Bill of Rights 2025: Landlords Must Attach It to Every Residential Lease

A Maryland landlord searching for what happens if they forget to attach the Tenants' Bill of Rights to a lease won't find a fine written into the statute. That absence is real, and it's worth knowing plainly rather than assuming a penalty exists somewhere unstated. It doesn't mean the requirement is low-stakes, since the document itself comes with its own strict rule: attach the current version, unmodified, or don't attach a version at all.

Prince George's County Rent Control Law 2026: How the Permanent Rent Stabilization and Protection Act Works

Prince George's County's rent stabilization law has technically existed since 2024, but for over a year, several of its most important tools, rent banking, a capital-improvement surcharge, a renovation exemption, and a fair-return petition, had no working process behind them. That changed February 1, 2026, when the county's implementing regulations finally took effect.

Montgomery County Rent Cap 2026-2027: 5.2% Maximum Increase for Regulated Units

Most rent stabilization programs exempt newer buildings and cover everything older. Montgomery County runs the opposite framing on paper, but lands in the same place: a unit only falls under the county's mandatory rent cap once it turns 23 years old, which means a landlord with newer stock can easily misjudge whether the 5.2% cap actually applies to them at all.

Maryland Air Conditioning Law 2026: Buildings With 10 or More Units Must Keep Covered Units at 80°F or Below

A Maryland landlord scanning this law's June 1, 2026 effective date could easily assume every covered unit falls under that single deadline. It doesn't. A unit getting new electrical or heating work falls under a different trigger date entirely, four months later, and missing that distinction is the most likely way to get this compliance timeline wrong.

Maryland Fair Housing Act 2026: Discriminatory Effect Now Counts, Even Without Discriminatory Intent

A Maryland landlord used to be able to rely on a simple defense in a fair housing dispute: prove there was no intent to discriminate, and the claim usually ended there. Starting October 1, 2026, that defense alone isn't enough. A policy can now violate state fair housing law even without any discriminatory intent at all, and once a discriminatory effect is shown, it's the landlord who has to prove the policy was justified.

Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act 2026: Landlords Can't Ask About Criminal History Before a Conditional Offer

A Maryland landlord who reads the Fair Chance Housing Act as a simple ban-the-box rule, no criminal questions until later, is only getting half of it. The law actually creates two separate offense lists that apply at two separate points in the application process, and mixing them up is the easiest way to get this wrong.

Maryland Voucher Holder Protection 2026: Limits on Rejecting Applicants Who Receive Income-Based Housing Subsidies

A Maryland landlord reading headlines about this fall's voucher and rent-reporting changes could easily assume both apply the same way, since they arrived in the same legislative package and take effect the same day. They don't. One rule reaches every landlord in the state. The other only binds landlords who own six or more units.