BY BLAKE DOUGLAS originally published in The Island Packet
The rise of short-term rentals as lucrative income streams has individual homeowners and multi-property businesses on Hilton Head looking for more ways to maximize their investments.
Some residents say they’re concerned one strategy, higher capacities, could go beyond being a noisy nuisance and become a safety hazard.
Palmetto Dunes resident Scott McKenna purchased his home on High Water in 2015. For roughly the last five years, he’s lived next to a short-term rental property on High Water.
The home’s max listed capacity has fluctuated over time, McKenna said, from around 20 to the currently advertised limit of 30 guests. One bedroom in the listing houses nine bunk beds and a sofa bed to sleep two.
“That 11-person bedroom upstairs, there is no escape other than a window, but there’s no ladder, so I don’t know what you’d do (in case of a fire),” McKenna said.
In this illustration of a screen capture from VRBO’s website, a photo shows a bedroom with at least two triple bunkbeds in the Hilton Head listing located in Palmetto Dunes. Screenshot of VRBO listing
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