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San Diego granted dozens of short-term rental licenses it shouldn't have (NBC7)
"We pass laws but, of course, without accountability or enforcement, they’re not very useful."
"NBC 7 Investigates analyzed the city’s license data from May, however, and noticed that 19 hosts had more than one license."
‘Nice Neighbors’: Citizen Watchdogs on the Prowl (OBrag)
“This really aggressive profit-seeking behavior is destroying our communities.”
Maps of vacation rentals in San Diego stirs housing debate (CBS8)
“The market has been overrun with corporate operators who run more than one property, who are doing this as an investment opportunity to capture the most amount of revenue they can,”
Vacation rentals turn hundreds of San Diego apartment buildings into pseudo hotels (NBC7)
"landlords can make double or triple what they get from a monthly rent check by charging a premium nightly rate to out-of-town visitors to stay in the same apartment."
Over 6% of All Residential Units in Ocean Beach Are Licensed as Short-Term Rentals (OBRag)
The city of San Diego said in a statement there are more than 8,600 short-term rental licenses citywide.
La Jolla tenants evicted, apartment to be converted to vacation rentals (CBS8, YouTube)
"Records show the new owner, Rosemont Windansea LLC, bought the property last year. Weeks later, Paragon Management Company LLC applied for licenses to convert the apartments into short-term vacation rentals."
San Diego’s new short-term rental rules say no more than one license per person. So how did one owner get more than 100? (San Diego Union Tribune)
San Diego short-term rental rules: how to complain, maps and more (San Diego Union Tribune)
San Diego's short-term rental regs a year later: Is the city cracking down on scofflaws? (San Diego Union Tribune)
What loophole? San Diego's elected leaders think short-term rental rules are working (San Diego Union Tribune)