The city is starting to crack down on illegal suites, so if you ever had anyone complain due to parking, noise, the amount of people in and out, etc. it wouldn't likely meet the city's standards.

Well, despite my research, it seems that STR is not permitted in the city, period.There are a lot of STR's currently there, but I'm afraid there will be a crackdown because a state bill was passed on Oct 1 stating that abnb will send all occupancy taxes directly to the city.So now the city will be receiving tax revenue on all of these properties that it didn't even know about. b.

A friend of mine has made it her full time job, but the city is trying to crack down.

The city even recently said they are working harder to crack down on unlicensed STRs operating illegally: https://www.msn.com/en-us/vide...

The same goes for when the article states Airbnb's success encourages commercial users but then they also say they've "worked with several cities to write rules that crack down on commercial users who try to turn their secondary residences into ersatz hotel rooms."

While there were some management headaches (it's a C-Corp I used for flipping and I needed to make sure there was no commingling with my other flipping company which used personal funds instead of IRA funds), it worked out just fine.The biggest issue is that the DOJ has issued some warnings about these types of retirement vehicles and there is some reason to believe that at some point in the future, they may crack down and decide that -- because these vehicles pay salary to the employees right out of their retirement funds -- it's a violation ERISA laws.Personally, I was concerned enough that I shut my plan down a few months ago, and spent a couple thousand dollars to get a Determination Letter (which I'm currently waiting for) from the IRS.In the end, I made some money in my IRA, but it wasn't worth the management headaches or the stress of wondering if the DOJ would deem it illegal.

But PA Department of Revenue has tried to crack down on that for several years by changing the regulations over and over again.

If the bad stuff pops up several times I believe that too, then just decide if that bad is bad for my circumstances......whatever.Glad to see the crack down. :)

We've decided to add a housekeeping addendum and tell people that if we see issues during inspections that we will crack down on the addendum.  

Just like the Gov came down on the mortgage industry with Dodd Frank  it may be only a matter of time until states other than Ohio and Florida start to crack down on un licensed activity.