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exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "Steve Meldahl made a list of items needed one of his houses undergoing renovation at 31st and Upton in Minneapolis.  Outspoken, notorious Minneapolis landlord Steve Meldahl has appealed special assessments against his properties for nuisances and other issues more than anyone else in the city in the last three years, 66 times and has very little success, a Star Tribune analysis of municipal records found. The investor, who lives in Eden Prairie but does business in north Minneapolis, constantly tangles with the city and is going through a bankruptcy now in which the city is among his largest creditors and is owed $121,000. (Last month, he had to unload at least 11 properties in his housing empire to another investor just to help pay creditors.) He derides the city's administrative hearing process for appeals as a kangaroo court, and the Star Tribune found that hearing officers contracted by the city, who are private and sometimes politically-connected attorneys to hear cases, uphold 80 percent of the fines levied by Minneapolis. It's an obscure but important part of City Hall's regulatory process, and no one knows it better than Meldahl.]  Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune  bbisping@startribune.com  Steve Meldahl/source.(Photo By Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune via Getty Images)"}