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Mobile app finds homes with parking
To live in Federal Hill is to know the value of a home with off-street parking.
Ronald Monk has lived there seven years, and even though he has access to a high school parking lot and doesn't have too much difficulty with parking himself, he's seen his neighbors' troubles. He's seen them ticketed for parking too close to a corner, or for straying outside their residential permit zone, struggling even if they're willing to pay for a space.
"It's very difficult to find garages that rent spaces," said Monk, a Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeService PenFed Realty, which has an office on Fort Avenue.
He now offers an abiding 21st-century response: There's an app...
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