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This city is challenging big landlords without waiting on Trump

By Michael Sasso and Kriston Capps | Bloomberg President Donald Trump wants to ban big investors from buying more houses. Some local governments are already on the case – and Atlanta is ground zero. The Atlanta area has the highest share of corporate-owned single-family rentals in the US, and that’s spooked many locals. Residents fume about the impact on prices. Politicians have tried to impose restrictions, with mixed success — and say they’re glad to have Trump on their side, even though he has yet to flesh out the executive order signed last month. The urge to tame big corporate landlords is bubbling over among locals in woodsy Paulding County, Georgia, an Atlanta exurb where church steeples and old graveyards punctuate the rolling hills, and an 18-foot fiberglass Wonder Woman waves at drivers. “We want to run our county in a proper way,” said Tim Estes. He’s chair of the Paulding County Commission, which enforces special requirements for rental-home subdivisions. “We don’t want a corporation with no skin in the game to come in and destroy our community and our way of living.” He’s railing against a phenomenon that gained some steam after the 2008 crash and took off again post-p

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