New problem impacts city’s efforts to regulate vacation-rental industry
The city treasurer and city attorney told NBC 7 Investigates that on its face, using other people as hosts is not a violation of the ordinance.
The spokesperson also told NBC 7 that viewers “should be aware of the financial and other risks to which they are exposing themselves when allowing themselves to be listed as STRO hosts. As the city site makes clear, 'Hosts who fail to comply with all STRO requirements risk enforcement actions being taken against them, up to and including civil penalties.'"Hillcrest homeowner Jay Goldberg has some experience dealing with short-term rentals.
“There were times that I felt powerless,” Goldberg said. “Very emotionally, it felt like the only way that I could stop that was by having money. And I’m fortunate enough where I can do that. And I felt that there are a lot of people in San Diego who have to put up with this who don’t.” “Most hosts aren’t against regulations,” Locke said. “I think they want it. There’s an air of illegitimacy that we want to start getting rid of.”
I think the city has a lot to improve on. It's not perfect. We’re not expecting it to be perfect. But we’re expecting it to be better.”Locke thinks property owners should be able to have more than one license and said a cap on the number allowed could be useful, but he didn’t want to put an exact number on it.
“I was appalled,” Locke said. “I think all of us were. We were just like, 'Oh, my gosh. How did they do that?' ”
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