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Crazy: I had the same landlord. I drove by his management office on Box Street last week and saw it was turned into a hotel, and now I see the luxury lofts list
by subpixel 14y ago
Crazy: I had the same landlord. I drove by his management office on Box Street last week and saw it was turned into a hotel, and now I see the luxury lofts listed on Airbnb.
He's not a normal landlord, he's a shark. He owns several dozen buildings, prefers paying fines to getting permission, and once had our whole building manned with thugs to prevent a city agency from entering the building and confirming that he was constructing a unit on the roof without a permit.
He even connected several of his buildings' toilets and sinks directly to storm drainage pipes, dumping raw sewage straight into the creek (http://bit.ly/L3f8Ey http://bit.ly/L3f8Ey).
- roguecoder 14y agoThose sorts of actions are what regulation was supposed to prevent. The current option, of crowd-sourcing information about possible lodging, wasn't previously possible. While we still need regulation to prevent the dumping of raw sewage, we could get so much more out of the space we have with decentralized, information-rich decision making. Plus, it's not like regulation has actually kept people like him from doing illegal things. As long as the punishment is "a fine" breaking the law is just another cost of doing business. If instead the government could evict him from his properties he might possible decide its worth following the law.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoOut of all the bickering in this entire thread, finally a comment that gives some insight on the other guy. Well done.