What can I do?

Hi there, I live in Emmitsburg,MD and I am wondering what my renters rights are in the county of Frederick regarding a noise Ordinance. We recently moved in 2 months ago knowingly that there was a commercial space on the front of the house. Although we had a gentlemen’s agreement that the office space was going to be a 9-5 business, we did not put anything about the hours of operation for this space in our lease. We are not far from route 15 and we have traffic noise as it is, plus there is a trucking company next to us that makes noise at all hours of the night, trucks coming and going, that we have been dealing with. However last week the trucking company has signed a year lease with our landlord to rent the front space of the house. First it was just the front door slamming that would shake the whole house and is directly below our bedroom and would wake us up at night.Our landlord had it fixed and it is less of a problem(although we still hear and feel it). Now that they are settled and conducting business the noise is constant. When it started my husband very nicely explained the disturbances to them and they were very nice about it. They told us that they would write a note to keep the noise level down between the hours of 7pm and 7am, AND they stated that they were not there past midnight and opened back up at 5am. This was a blantant LIE!!! They have kept us up til 2 or 3 in the morning with talking, laughing and carrying on with each other. My husband was very nice again when he went to speak with them and the office manager was very rude! Gave him looks of death an said," We are trying to run a business here!!!" At that point my husband stopped himself from smacking the bitch up(which I’m very proud of him for) and he called the landlord for the second complaint. Our landlord proposed that we MOVE our room to the smaller room on the back side of the house-YEAH OUR BED WILL NOT FIT IN THAT ROOM!!!! Why should we have to move our lives around to accomadate an obvious 24 hour business when we are tenants and were here first?!? We feel we have compromised enough on the noise and this is just to the point of ridiculousness!!! We have barely gotten sleep in the past week as when we think the noise is over we are just woken up again and again!!! There has to be some renters rights protecting tenants from this, we deserve to have peaceful nights rest!!!! Oh and it has just come to my attention that this property is not zoned as residental??!?! Which may work against us…. I tried to get a recycling bin through Frederick county and was told I could not, due to the zoning as a commericial space. Our landlord said he would not change the zoning, offered his recycling bin down the road, which is another inconvienence, and I have not addressed this issue again. Our landlord is a very nice old man and we do not want to cause problems for him, however we are at a loss as what to do on this matter. We deserve to get rest in our own home that we pay good money for!!!! We are at the breaking point and thinking of how we can break our lease, move, and sue for moving costs and rent greivances. I want to do this right however so that we do not get encounter liability for these extra costs. Oh and at 3 am this morning hearing this lady laugh and talk loud I was ready to go up there and shut her mouth for her!! Please help so I do not do anything stupid and take these matters into my own fists! Thanks, Amy

I own a trailer but rent a lot in a trailer park.  For years the roads have been a mess.  Cars are being torn up, kids have broken bones in the pot holes, pizza delivary men have refused to delivery b/c they have damaged their cars delivering here and its just an all around hazard.  They have filled the holes with gravel to try and patch up the road but it only makes it worse, thats how bad the pot holes are.  I have put out a petition to other tenants to sign stating that we want the roads properly fixed by the end of the summer or we will begin legally with holding rent.  I have read there are accounts for situations like these where you pay you rent to the account not you land lord until the problems solved.  My land lords have retaliated by posting a letter saying if we want the roads fixed thats fine but they want to raise our rent by $210.00 to do so or there is nothing they can do.  In the past several years they have raised the rent saying it was to fix the roads and have failed to do so. Can they do this and what more can I do to get our roads fixed.