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    Default Re: Md Accumulation of Back Rent Statute of Limitations

    I believe that the 2 years that the tenant hid from you might not count against the SOL.

    See MD's tolling statute:

    2016 Maryland Code
    Courts and Judicial Proceedings
    Title 5 - Limitations, Prohibited Actions, and Immunities
    Subtitle 2 - Computing Time
    § 5-205. Absence from State or moving from county

    (a) Denial of benefit of limitation. -- A person who absents himself from the State or removes from county to county after contracting a debt, so that his creditor may be uncertain of finding the person or his property, may not have the benefit of any limitation contained in this title, but this subsection does not prohibit a person from removing himself or his family from one county to another for reasons of convenience nor does it deprive any person leaving the State for the time limited in this subsection of the benefits of any statute of limitations if he leaves sufficient and known effects for the payment of his just debts in the hands of some person who will assume the payment of them to his creditors.

    (b) Person absent when action accrues. -- A person who is absent from the State when a cause of action accrues against him may not benefit from a statute of limitation if the plaintiff files the action within the normal limitations period after the defendant returns to the State.
    http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/fr...S&tab=subject5

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