INDIANAPOLIS — Neighbors at The Grounds, an apartment complex at East 21st Street and North Central Avenue, said they have complained to management for several months about short-term rentals taking over unleased units and bringing raucous strangers into their buildings, but to no avail.
”I noticed when I saw people I hadn’t seen before at the pool across the street, specific gatherings on more than one occasion and I started to realize that people who don’t live here on a long term were here on a regular basis,” said one woman who said neighbors were intimidated by non-residential teens at a recent late night pool party.
”The constant influx of suitcases in and out. Cleaning folks that don’t clean the building, but just a specific unit’s time and time again. I knew immediately what was going on,” said another neighbor with professional property leasing experience. ”At first, they said it was corporate leases. I explained to them that I knew what a corporate lease was and it didn’t check the boxes of a corporate lease.”…