Miami Beach has a long history with short-term rentals, he said, suggesting the practice should be allowed in the part of the city zoned for commercial use.

We've saved landlords from bankruptcy, from foreclosure.' 'Ultimately, our whole mission is to help landlords,' Berney said. Hosts like Perrea, who work on behalf of Vacayo, are independent contractors, Berney said. 'I mean, she probably was just put on the spot and she was probably scared, and I wasn't aware of what she says.' CNBC reached Perrea who said, 'I'm really sorry but I can't take this call right now.' The call was disconnected and she did not respond to a follow-up call. Berney said she was not aware that Vacayo host Perrea had falsely told code compliance that she was renting the unit to friends. 'Right now, we are not entering any additional units in Miami Beach that are not fully compliant,' she said. They're the ones who do it and they claim they have no responsibility because, 'oh, we're just an internet platform.' But they're not.' In an interview with CNBC, Isabel Berney, co-founder and COO of Vacayo, said the company has exited leases in the prohibited zones. 'The easiest way to stop all of this is if the home-sharing platforms simply didn't send people into these neighborhoods,' Gelber said. So far this year, $2.4 million in fines have been issued, records show, but only about $183,000 has been collected. The city expects it will investigate more than 1,000 complaints of illegal rentals this year, up from more than 800 in 2017. 'It's people taking very nice properties, buying them and turning them into essentially a flophouse for as many people as they can put in there to extract as much income as they can in the middle of a neighborhood that wasn't zoned for that kind of behavior,' the former prosecutor and state representative and senator said.

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