I will echo the crowd on the inspectors/plan reviewers at the city they seem to enjoy torturing people.

This morning I read about a grandmother convicted for torturing her 8 year old grandchild to death.

(The adjacent lot, fwiw, is not large enough to build on so a purchase would be purely to torture us.)  

They just ruled that it is freedom of speach to torture animals and film the torture.

I've been tortured forever, not being able to read/post from my phone!

You'd have to pin that to those on the political right my friend; progressives don't approve of a corporate take-over of the government, the Supreme Court defending such policies as Citizens United, the surveillance state, torturing or drone-killing, or the failure to separate church and state.

Here you can terminate them without any legal problems as long as you dont torture them. i would not use poison so you dont kill any neighbor dogs and cause the people next to you to be upset with you.

I come to real estate by a very tortured path.I graduated from college with a BS in physics in 1980 (yea, I am that old).

The relentless torture of corporate IT work (to include the physical torture of sleep deprivation especially, getting paged awake for server alerts and process errors), drove it through my thick skull that that was not the life I wanted for myself.Unfortunately for me, initially I didn't translate that directly to financial freedom. 

The remedial work and sitting in a classroom to do it was torture.