EDB Enterprises LLC and Associates

Urban Residential Real Estate Consultants | Helping you make your dreams come true in Baltimore, One House at a Time!

Established in the year 2000, EDB Enterprises LLC and Associates is a full service residential real estate development company, specializing in redevelopment in the urban market.

Services Offered:

  • Project planning
  • Rehab and New Construction
  • Home and Rental Inspections
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Title Work

Eric Booker

As a developer, Eric has been purchasing, rehabilitating row homes in East Baltimore for over 20 years with the goal of restoring these neighborhoods to their original beauty.  By purchasing homes at a low cost and remodeling every aspect, Eric has built a successful real estate business providing affordable market rate housing for residents in his community.   He moved senior community members from blighted drug infested blocks to a more populated and safe area of the neighborhood.  His model, considering the poverty rate in the city and his community, has been to never raise the rent once the tenant signs the lease. His desire continues to be for them to have a better quality of life. Some of his tenants have moved on to become homeowners under his tutelage.  He continues to work to bring amenities to an under-served area of the city and remains hopeful for a better future for his East Baltimore neighborhood.

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A Neighborhood Abandoned Part 2

Booker undertook the renovations during the period of the greatest decline in the area around the brewery. During the 1990s, the population fell at four times the rate of the city as a whole, and the number of vacant properties in the blocks around the brewery tripled. Decades of abandonment by residents, landlords and businesses had left the area almost in ruins.

For Booker to realize his larger dream of improving not just a couple of blocks but the neighborhood at large, it will take much more than the efforts of a few individuals. Many of the streets in the area are worse than his was when he started, with more vacancies and more crumbling buildings.

"How," he asks, "do you bring the neighborhood back if you don't have public and private investments?""
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