Living Here
Gasoline rates have equaled out.
The stations figured out that the Geneva Shore Report X-Files investigators were onto them. All the gas stations in the Geneva Lake area are now giving customers a full gallon of gas, even the places GSR investigators had checked earlier. What happened? The energy industry is limitless in funding. The gas stations called in investigators of their own, to verify that short gallon allegations were false in each gas station location around the lake. Or more likely to develop a written record showing that the gas stations were all delivering a full gallon for a gallon, as indicated on their metering devices.
Whatever happened, it has been good for the community. At least temporarily the gas stations are being forced, by fear of revelation, to be fair. So much of capitalism works this way. It is incumbent upon the public to be aware. It is incumbent upon the Geneva Shore Report, and other news organizations, to make the public aware. A continuing fraud still being perpetrated on the public involves the pricing of gasoline marked as premium. Gas stations are charging as much as $1.10 extra a gallon for this supposed better grade of gasoline. It is not a better grade, and most stations located around the country are charging only twenty to thirty cents more a gallon. What’s happening? Fraud and lying. The gas stations say it’s the refiners and the refiners refuse to say anything at all. It’s not the refiners. It’s a system of secrecy that allows this kind of rotten behavior to start, and then continue. The Geneva Shore Report is going to continue to check your gasoline for alcohol content, RON content (quality of additives), and whether the customers are getting a full gallon or not.
Symphony Bay and where it’s going in.
The reason the barn is checkered black and white on the Pollard property is because there was once a go-cart race track located there, long after farming had ceased. The place is approved for a massive (450 residence) development. According to the development’s realtor, the nine hundred, or so, residents who may or may not end up on the property will fill the streets and businesses of Lake Geneva with cash in their pockets. This happens often during the summer in Lake Geneva. However, it is always better if those showing up with cash in their pockets aren’t just reaching for change to pay the meters.
Mike Keefe, the leader of Keefe Real Estate,
The premier real estate company around Lake Geneva before @Properties came along, is apparently really putting it to small business owners. Here’s how. It’s called a lease. The lease the Geneva Shore Report X-Files investigators are holding is 14 pages long (single spaced!). What’s inside? How about stuff like “If the Premises or the Building and related areas are, in the reasonable judgment of Lessor (MKK Broad Street, LLC), made untenantable by fire or other casualty, Lessor shall elect by written notice to Lessee within ninety (90) days after the date of the fire or casualty, (a) terminate the Lease as of the date of the fire or casualty, or (b) proceed with the due diligence to repair…. etc.”
If you have a problem with your leased property, then Keefe’s company dumps you based on “their” opinion. Do they go out and find someone less diligent and start over? Does that matter to the business thrown out on the street with one day’s notice? There are many, many, more onerous and questionable provision written into the MKK lease. Try having to pay for all legal fees if the Lessor decides to file suit. Try having to replace the building’s heater/air conditioner if it fails. Try giving the Lessor keys to all spaces and then allowing Lessor to enter at any time for any ‘reasonable’ purpose. The “reasonable” there being the opinion of the Lessor. If one of these leases is broken, then the full deposit put down on the lease will not be returned unless the lessee signs a “release of lease,” requiring that no part of the lease, or the provisions used to cancel it, or even any negative comments made later on, be held as completely confidential under threat of breach of lease release contract. Is there any wonder that this lease copy is the first to fall into the media’s hands?
The Keefe organization has a reputation for being hard-nosed and tough. From initial interpretation, this lease appears to indicate that the organization (at least MKK Broad Street) may well be mean-spirited, unfair and predatory as well. The research into Keefe small business leases continues.
