+1 to the don’t go out on Valentine’s Day, but if you insist I’d recommend The Food Market in Hampden. Make reservations

A lot of "it depends" questions, things that are the depends:

• Your personal comfort level
• Neighborhood you move to
• Income
• Your background
• Roommates
• Many other things

My opinions, your mileage may vary:

Are wages typical of the rent? - That's a huge it depends

Camera - Yes, at least a doorbell one as porch pirates are real everywhere

Alarm - it depends

Parking included - it depends but generally no

Crime - Consult this map https://www.baltimorepolice.org/crime-stats , strongly opinionated thing here

Dos and donts - oh where to start with that, maybe read this subreddit and see what you can gleam from it

Can you provide more details?

It’s on most peoples avoid list, but use your own judgement.

Here is a helpful resource - https://arcgisportal.baltimorepolice.org/publiccrimemap/

Any which way they can give you money (venmo, cashapp, cash, check, zelle, etc) and just track it with a google spreadsheet that you share with everyone who is interested as to who has paid and who hasn't.

Good luck!

Are there additional emergency exits that were not being utilized during a regular exit? It's fairly common to not use all doors to manage control of people. 10+ minutes for people to file out of a large building is a more reasonable number than you would believe.

Comparing this to the Station Night Club Fire is not a great comparison, that situation is where the planned egress was blocked and doors did not open in the proper direction. That was also a significantly smaller building in height which caused many of the issues at hand.

Before going further down the path, recommend checking into a few areas:

1. What building code was it designed to?
2. What is the current city building code?
3. What preventions are in place? Active and Passive
4. Have performance design and exceptions been made for the building?

Just want to caution folks jumping to conclusions when there are skilled professionals and departments who manage this and just because a place doesn't have sprinklers doesn't mean it's a trap.