Parking Permit Renewal Time

Parking permits in Baltimore City are pretty reasonable - they are $20 a year for a residential permit, and each guest permit is an additional $20. However, when you consider the added expense of going to the parking authority twice with all the necessary documentation, the cost seems higher. This year we will be picking up our permit at one of our convenient community pickup locations.  It is annoying that they aren't pro-rated, so we bought new permits last January at our old apartment, then this year in August, and then we have to get new ones now as well, paying $20 per permit and guest permit each time.  However, they are useful and the City could get away with charging way more than they do, so I try not to complain about it too much. 

I'm very curious as to whether we would be entitled to get two parking permits for our address. Because we have a parking pad, usually they will only give you one street permit and the other person has to use the parking pad, but this varies by area. I want to find out if that rule would apply to us if we bought a second car, but I don't want to ask and alert anyone who hasn't noticed yet to the fact that we have a parking pad (it's a new addition, and the parking authority is really slow to update). We rarely would park two cars on the street, but when we've had two cars, we need to be able to shuffle them.

The most annoying part is removing the stickers. Some people just let them pile up on their windshield and show how long they've been living in Area 8/16/45/30 for, but we usually opt to remove the old and put the new one on.  Right now we have both our old permit and our current permit, which is because we needed both of them for moving day and then never bothered to remove the old one. Two is where I draw the line though, so they are both coming off.  Removal has always been annoying, and since we now have an easy way to run an extension cord out to the car, I want to try the blowdryer method of sticker removal.