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The historical solution to this (illegal tenant in an illegal short-term sublet doesn't want to move out) would be to have some vowel-suffixed friends encourage them to move out. Which isn't exactly "nice", but at least has the virtue of being nicely economically efficient.


Looks like just the threat worked in the case of a soldier who went to Afghanistan and returned to find that his renters had become squatters.

http://www.wfla.com/story/25320239/outpouring-of-support-for...


Landlord ends up in jail, and property ends up destroyed. Since the landlord probably doesn't have insurance, or has voided that insurance several different ways, it's an expensive method to achieve nothing. And that's if the tenents decide to leave, because they could just stay.


I was thinking something similar, the AirBnb host however doesn't think of themselves as doing anything illegal so they constrain their thinking in that way. I have certainly met people over the years who exploit this in others.


> some vowel-suffixed friends

Sorry for OT, but I've never seen this phrasing before. I assume from context that you mean the mafia, but why "vowel-suffixed"?


It's a way of saying "Italians" while trying to avoid appearing racist by directly saying it. Many Italian surnames end in a vowel.


It's called an allusion, and it has nothing to do with "avoiding appearing racist".


Good, because it didn't work -- you sounded kinda racist.


Would you have been less offended if he had just said "friends named Guido"?


that's true, I guess a lot of underground markets, black markets operate under the hand of physical enforcement or intimidation, I guess the more unregulated a market is, even lead to death. ex. drugs, prostitution etc.




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