Angry residents lodged a petition for authorities to take action against a homeowner believed to be renting out her home on popular accomodation site Airbnb.
The house in question is a four-storey corner terraced house, located at Penaga Place in Sembawang. The house is listed on home-sharing websites Airbnb and Homeaway.
Lianhe Wanbao*reported that neighbour Madam Wendy Ng, 52, who lives in the house next door, said that she found the noise and large number of comings and goings by strangers difficult to bear.
Madam Ng, who moved into the area four years ago, said she initially found it strange that the house next to hers never seemed to sleep, with noises emanating from it even late at night.
"I did not know what was going on at first. It was only later when I noticed that there were people whom I had never seen in the area before that I realised the house was being used as a short-term rental provider," she told Lianhe Wanbao.
Earlier on, Madam Ng had lodged a complaint with URA. The authorities then tried to inspect her neighbour's premises, but no one was at home.
The next day, however, she received a note from the owner of the property, who claimed that there were no short-term rentals there, and that all tenants had taken leases of at least six months. The owner also claimed that Madam Ng had been reported to the police for harassment.
But noticing that there were still many strangers staying at the house next door in the past few months, Madam Ng decided to start a petition last Thursday, getting 37 signatures in two days.
Previously, she had even employed a private investigator to gather photographic and videographic evidence of what went on inside the property by pretending to be a tenant at the house for a week.
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