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0 pointscandiodari3y ago0 comments

What I don't get is ... where is the government in all this? As the article points out: the owners of the property clearly violate a lot of laws. So I hear violating the law gets you into "trouble with the law".

Well, clearly it doesn't.

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rjzzleep3y ago

I once went to the German police over an illegal listing, after the owner got physical when I asked him to turn on the heat at night.

The police laughed at me and told me what I did wrong. Part of it was racism, but the other part of it was just laziness.

To actually get something to happen you have to send a letter to the general prosecutor, who then orders the police to investigate. This process takes months.

datavirtue3y ago

Government resources are not web scale. They do not and cannot scale except through legislation in some cases.

pasttense013y ago

What happens when you do complain? You lose your illegal rental accommodation. This is not a win.

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