Also note that some states had (and have) eviction bans on top of the federal ban.

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So, I have been researching on innovative ways to evict a tenant despite the ban on evictions.

I don't know Springfield city politics at all, but I imagine it's conservative overall so I doubt you'd see rent controls, eviction bans, punitive tax raises, disbanding police, etc. like you might in more liberal urban centers.

Measure T banned vacation rentals in residential zoned neighborhoods.

The president and congress generally support eviction bans through at least the end of the year.

We are seeing metro areas, like Cincinnati, banning security deposits. 

But with Covid and the direction this country is going I'm afraid of being stuck with non paying tenants and eviction bans. 

@Bill Schrimpf Didn't the NAR ban pocket listings?