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Old 09-11-2025, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe View Post
If a landlord of a reasonable rental unit wants guest passes for his tenants, I have no issues with it. They already pay a fee to get them. I would recommend a limit, like 4 per month. That's enough for a monthly renter and their occasional visitors. Seems reasonable to me.

Now if you're talking about new tenants every weekend or several times a week, then I'm not in support of guest pass issuance for these folks.
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Originally Posted by Bill14564 View Post
Not semantics at all. The assertion was that because the rec center employees always entered the data they would be able to see who was “abusing” the system. I doubt it would be that simple but since the rec center employees DO NOT always enter the information they would not be able to identify “abusers.”

If I sit at home and enter the information then have my guests pick up their own passes the rec center employees don’t see a familiar face come in every third day. They might notice a lot of passes under my name but I can always vary the pickup points to avoid that.
Poster #2 above is completely missing the more important point. It’s not about how the database is populated, it’s about the information contained within the database.

Consider two residents that both have a history of 200 guest passes.

Resident one’s 200 guest passes were for a total of 20 people, who each visited the villages 10 different times over the last 8 years.

Resident two’s guest passes were for 196 different people over the last 10 months.

Which one of these residents appears to be having family members and friends occasionally visit, and which resident is very obviously running a short term revolving door business out of their home? The answer is about as obvious as it gets!