A cleaning crew stumbled upon 235 pounds of methamphetamine while working at a California Airbnb property, police say. The Alhambra Police Department announced Sunday that two suspects are now in custody on charges of transporting narcotics following the recent discovery in the 1400 block of Ethel Avenue in the southern California city. Investigators say they initially were called to the …
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As Nashville continues to be a popular destination for tourists and wealthy newcomers, locals from a variety of backgrounds say that skyrocketing housing prices have left them on the streets. “Nashville only cares about tourists, country music and cowboy hats. It’s a dog and pony show. Forget those fancy apartments that are going up, I don’t stand a chance of …
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A Texas realtor out of Houston has leveraged a unique approach to removing squatters from properties, and it scored him a seat at a Senate hearing on Wednesday in Austin. George Huntoon told Fox News Digital during a phone interview that, since 2020, he has handled four squatter situations in which he speaks directly to the occupants and uses a …
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A neighborhood in Long Beach, California has become the first and possibly not last to ban unsupervised Airbnb rentals over concerns about drug-filled parties plaguing homes. In April, College Estates resident Andy Oliver filed a petition to the city’s Community Development Department following months of out-of-state tourists renting out unhosted houses, taking advantage of the state’s lax drug laws and …
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Patti Peeples, a Florida homeowner, fell victim to squatting, just as she had received an offer for her property. It took 36 days for the squatters to be evicted from Peeples’ property and thousands of dollars to repair the damage they left behind. This happened to Peeples just around a year ago, but her squatter story didn’t end there. Since …
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A Pennsylvania landlord, Joseph Foresta, sued Airbnb in March 2023 after an individual rented his residence for one night through the company’s website and took over the apartment as a squatter. A year later, Foresta continues to battle Airbnb in court. In June 2020, the guest paid for his stay through Airbnb, and the company collected the fees, according to …
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Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick’s home to white dust, the cheapest rental she and her now-husband could find for their family and dogs cost $10,000 …
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Every part of Barbara Peraza-Garcia and her family’s single-room apartment in Seattle has a double or even triple purpose. The 180-square-foot room is filled with an air mattress where she, her partner and their children, ages 2 and 4, sleep. It’s also where they play or watch TV. At mealtimes, it becomes their dining room. It’s a tight squeeze for …
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