News

1. Questionnaire sent to local developers and retractions

   October 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM (UTC)

   Yesterday and the day before, I sent a questionnaire to the major developers in Batumi. The deadline I set for answers is November 4, 2026. I will keep the public service announcement updated as they reply. The questionnaire is now mentioned there.

   On another public service announcement, to renters in Next White, I made two retractions. I had stated Next coerced landlords to sign the common area service agreement, using its coercion against me as evidence. However, I am not renting apartments (how could I, without elevators?) and cannot be considered a landlord.

   Furthermore, in the same page, I had presented a report from an owner as a fact regarding Next White's cleaning schedule.

2. Apology to the Next Group and summary updates

   October 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM (UTC)

   Today I wrote a page that compared the Next Group to a pest. I retract that comparison and apologize. It deviated from the factual tone of this dossier. I now refer instead to their parasitical behavior.

   I also removed two sarcastic comments from the same page.

   Finally, I updated one sentence in the Summary. Its meaning was clear, but not explicit. The mother climbing with a child was her allegation.

3. Mice, cockroaches and summary updates

   October 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM (UTC)

   I have included reports of mice, with video evidence, and cockroaches from owners of Next White and Next apartments.

   There is a new page on pests on Next buildings, which I added to the Summary.

   While being demanded to waive your claims to use the elevator when you need a wheelchair is an indignity, the fact this owner was mentioned next to another owner who allegedly needed to use the stairs made the whole sentence misleading. In respect to the readers of this dossier, I have separated that sentence in the Summary into two, to make it more clear.

4. Mistake in yesterday's news item's date

   October 5, 2026 at 12:05 PM (UTC)

   Yesterday, October 4, 2026, I published a news item incorrectly dated October 3, 2026. It was an editing mistake that I did not catch because of another error in the website and feed generator.

   I would not like my conduct to mirror that of the Next Group in backdating documents.

   My apologies for any inconvenience caused.

5. Technical issue with the website

   October 5, 2026 at 11:14 AM (UTC)

   For technical reasons that I do not currently understand, web browsers can retain stale versions of the web pages in this dossier and display them to users instead of updating their content automatically.

   If a page in this dossier seems outdated to you, particularly the news page and pages its news items reference, please simply reload the page.

   I will post another news item when this issue is confirmed to be resolved.

   My apologies for the inconvenience.

6. Warning from the Polish embassy, and an update on the owner who needs a wheelchair

   October 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM (UTC)

   The Polish embassy in Tbilisi had issued a warning for investors in Batumi, due to increased reports from Polish investors deceived by real estate developers. I added this dossier's public service announcement, which now mentions this fact, as a comment to that warning.

   I also spoke to the owner that needs a wheelchair. While it remains true that Next used elevator access as leverage to obtain his signature on the Act of Handover, he clarified that his legal counsel instructed him to sign it because he had no claims against Next Hospitality specifically. He protested having to sign the act, but that signature waived no claims. This dossier is not a hit piece, it is a factual account, and for the sake of honest communication with our readers, I removed the mentions of this owner from our public service announcement and from the page on the immoral conduct of the Next Group, even though they were technically correct prior to this update. This owner and I agreed it is best not to publish his other statements.

   Finally, a technical update. Our RSS feed now carries translation notes in non-native languages. If your feed reader shows updates to past feed items, that is the reason.

7. Statements from a wheelchair user and corrections

   October 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM (UTC)

   I have acquired consent from an owner who needs a wheelchair to publish his messages protesting the need to sign the Act of Handover in order to receive elevator access chips.

   I also made corrections to two statements, one that presented Next's valuations of owners as a fact and one that conflated using elevator access as leverage with its execution.

   The two outdated pages still exist as part of the permaweb, but they are not linked from this dossier any longer, except in this correction notice. The corrected pages have replaced them.

   Both corrections were identified and performed by myself, within a day of publication. They do not affect the substance of the dossier: Next operates an unlawfully installed access-control system on my co-owned elevators and demands a signature on a waiver of claims to provide me access.