Empty Los Angelesemptylosangeles.hashnode.dev·Oct 18, 202416 Years of Complaints and a House Fire4867 Melrose Avenue was a 1913 Craftsman that did not deserve negligent owners. The 4800 block of Melrose is in eastern, but not quite East, Hollywood, near the Templo Santa Muerte. I wonder what Santa Muerte thinks of LA’s plague of empty-building f...Discussfire
Empty Los Angelesemptylosangeles.hashnode.dev·Jun 26, 2024Dear City Attorney Hydee Feldstein-Soto,Dear City Attorney Hydee Feldstein-Soto, I see that your office recently brought a civil suit against an Airbnb host. The City Attorney's office has a lengthy history of receiving complaints about illegal short-term rentals. While the problem began o...Discussillegal hotel
Empty Los Angelesemptylosangeles.hashnode.dev·Dec 21, 2023Finally, Some Good NewsHey, remember when I exposed Yamashiro's illegal Airbnbs? Yeah...after twenty years of misusing the RSO apartments on the property as tourist rentals, the owners might actually face a consequence. Per Capital and Main, the "Hollywood Hills Hotel" is ...DiscussYamashiro
Empty Los Angelesemptylosangeles.hashnode.dev·Jul 6, 2023Et Tu, Yamashiro? UPDATED 7/18Yamashiro is one of those rare places that could only exist in LA: an exquisite hilltop palace commissioned by two German brothers, built by Japanese craftsmen in then-rural Hollywood, transformed from a private home to a tourist attraction to a mili...DiscussRSO
