"I was banned from the local Airbnb hosts Facebook groups after reporting 100+ listings and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Marley Price’s boyfriend likes to play video games in his spare time. She prefers to find potentially illegal short term rentals and report them to code enforcement.
Price, 27, has made a hobby out of reporting potential violators to St. Petersburg Code Compliance. She has filed at least 108 complaints since starting this work two months ago. According to the city, 88 of those properties reported by Price have received violation notices.
“We have received complaints from other individuals in the past, but not in the numbers that Ms. Price has submitted,” Amy Foster, city housing and neighborhood services administrator, wrote in an email.
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