Meet Baltimore’s most aggressive buyer of vacant rowhouses: ‘We’re helping here’

Gil Brenner pushed open the door of a vacant East Baltimore home and stepped into the darkness, past the feathery remains of a dead bird in a dank living room with mud-strewn carpet and rotted wall paneling. The company where Brenner works, GNR Group, paid $43,000 for this home in Elwood Park, he said.