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Evil Elixir d’Extortion … another one bites the dust in complicity. Yes, peoples this IS extortion that you have witnessed by the elected criminals. Did you mean to elect such evil people to run the city?
LOL ain’t got no competition because crony council bans AirBnBs at the COMMAND of the hotel owners. When Patel says jump, council ask how high . Better loosen those regulations a little and allow them to run especially along main corridors. If you can run an art studio in neighborhoods, why can’t you STR your property out?
“because crony council bans AirBnBs at the COMMAND of the hotel owners.”
[citation needed]
Who is thinking of the Montford residents who want to ka=ching-ka-ching from renting out the basements of their million-dollar homes? (Get a permit, pay the occupancy tax.)
LOL say did they ever collect those million dollar fines from the Greenlife fiasco?
LOL look how fast you changed the subject.