Hi everyone,
I am a new host. Everything was going well until this week, when the buildings inspector and the fire inspector showed up at my house looking around for 15 min, and then pointed out things like:
1. Bedrooms missing smoke detectors ( i can install that, no prob)
2. No illuminated exit sign on each of the door ( are you serious?)
3. No ramp for handicapped wheelchair to enter house (am I required to have that?)
4. My house zoning is residential ( there's a huge Dr. office across from my house, also a daycare right next to my house, so how are they allowed to operate?)
At the end they required me to hire an architect to do a Chapter 34 review and send them the results. Also they wanted to to stop my listing and cancel all existing bookings from November onwards. Building inspector warned, "I don't wanna have to come knocking on the door one night, and ask everybody inside to go to a motel, ok?"
So my question to you all is, can the city official really do that? Wouldn't they be tresspassing on my private property? How do we deal with this kind of situations?
I am in Fall River, Mass.
Thanks.
Florence