I have been a landlord since 2004. In 2012 after a court eviction, where the tenant sold my appliances before leaving, I started using airbnb for the summer months that my college students were out of town. In about 2016 i got this weird request on the airbnb website,basically saying i needed to call the city. After talking to someone in their office he more or less dismissed my summer rentals as I normally rent to college students. Then I managed to be put in contact with Ralph Reader in finance who apparently hates me. He has managed to ensnarl me in the rental inspection office, yes I passed after some weirdness from the two inspectors who seemed to be looking for something to write me up about. Then he filed a report with the planning commission, generally something neighbors do, that cited my illegal second unit, my lack of TOT taxes and my rental inspection. Since none of this is public knowledge or available by trolling the SC website and the illegal second unit was with the home when I bought it in 2004 and something I offered the inspectors to see. I had no idea it was illegal so no one EXCEPT a city employee could have turned me in? I schedule a meeting with planning commission, at their request, with my electrician and contractor. The planning office cancels day of. I do meet with an assisitant who then cites that my unit cannot be grandfathered through a variance as the lot size is less than 5000sq feet. That too was incorrect and her boss is cited months earlier saying that lot size is now a non issue. My buddy Ralph decides to audit me, for 2016. He is now asking for the information i already sent him in a different format, a month after I originally submitted it. Because of my location, smack in hotel alley in Beach Flats, I would be the ideal test case for airbnb. It seems as if the city is throwing everything at me, with the hopes that something sticks. Anyone else have this experience?
