Life Next to a STR on Marco Island

I am a full-time resident who lives next to a year-round mostly weekly short term rental home in our single-family neighborhood. There are approximately 20 homes in our immediate neighborhood of which there are eight STRs.

The rental house has three bedrooms, two baths. I get around 300 new neighbors each year. Impossible you say? Let’s do the math. Forty weeks rented per year (usually more) with at least four adults and three kids average. That’s seven people times 40 weeks is 280+ adults and kids every year. Absentee landlord owners add three to four pullout couches and magically turn a three-bedroom home into a 6+ bedroom home. At capacity, where do 12 adults and 6+ kids sleep? Where do five to six cars park? How much noise do they make at all hours?

I call the police at least once a month. The current noise ordinance is a joke. I can plainly hear the voices and music be it country western or rock or rap or Spanish so that my lanai becomes a country western bar or disco or cantina. Excessively loud music knows no cultural bounds.

Every week new people. Party, party, party. This isn’t someone’s grandkids coming to visit once in a while. Every week we wonder will it be better or worse than last week? Will we have to call the police again?

This is no way to live in one’s golden years. Vote YES on the STR ordinance and let’s get some control over this.