Reply #4: There is no question that this situation is ripe for review.

[The Backlash Cometh]

Where I live, the problem is that the City sees these businessmen as THEIR customers. In other words, the ordinary man is not relevant to them. Money talks. The City wasn't to attract the big money. But, here in this state, the City doesn't feel it has anything to barter with to attract these business to their City, so they barter away their oversight powers. They literally look the other way as connected individuals in their City screw over their neighbors! How they do it is with the help of attorneys. The City Attorney won't do due process of law and won't tell the Staff important things that would protect homeowners, and if the homeowners do gander on, it will be difficult to find a clean attorney. All the locals ones know the game. They're tied into the same business networks as the connected business owners. They know the situation and they will not reveal their conflicts of interest and just sucker the poor homeowner, consulting them down a blind alley.

It's a scam which the federal authorities should look into.