I agree with the sentiment that if you use a platform, you should follow the rules.

This is not a sentiment that is shared by people living in poverty or people who live at a subsistence level. 

Of course it has sentimental value to me which makes it very difficult. 

I also feel in some areas of RE, the market has been too hard on, making cap rates higher than I feel they should (with the inverse just as true).My whole business model is trying to find those properties that are priced lower than they should be due to the overall investor sentiment being more negative than my own outlook. 

Our country was founded on the exploitation of slaves for capital gain, so the sentiment throughout this thread does not surprise me.

@Jared Hottle Thanks for your response - I appreciate the overall sentiment you are saying!

If the sentiment about co-signers was that they were enough to make it worthwhile for the landlord, then I would've had the leaser do the further screening (interviewing the old landlord, talking to the parents, etc).

The same sentiment was 5x worse from people who did not live or invest in the Bay Area but felt they were somehow “uniquely qualified” to opine on the Bay Area market especially how it was a horrible place to live and had a dark future ahead.

Dang, you said that so much better than my post, but the sentiment is the same.

A lot of jurisdictions will impose a "fee" instead of a "tax" in order to either get around voter sentiment ("don't tax us more") or to get around statutory requirements that any new taxes must be approved by the voters (as is the case here in Colorado due to the TABOR amendment).I personally don't know Kentucky lodging tax well enough...but those are the questions I would ask.