Is it in any way related to a certain hood? I heard once about unsavory charlatan (I think it was) that got corrupt somehow, so the game would crash every time it tried to load him.

Hmmm, I basically only play in a single hood, so I don’t know if the problem would necessarily replicate itself. I was in my test hood yesterday for a little while to test out a community lot and everything went fine, but then again, I wasn’t really there too long. The Charlatan spawned in the test hood without any problems. I can try fiddling around with the visitor controller to ban him from lots in Sycamore Cove to see if that helps.