11-bedroom PadSplit still operating in Gwinnett neighborhood illegally months after owner fined WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga — Months after a Gwinnett County home was fined for operating at a boarding house illegally in a single-family neighborhood, the operation is still in business.

Channel 2 Investigates has been reporting on similar issues across metro Atlanta for four years. The company PadSplit operates like a modern-day boarding or rooming house where people book a room online and stay by the week.

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Channel 2 Consumer Investigator Justin Gray learned that the four-bedroom home has been split up into 11 bedrooms, which are all still for rent.

Neighbors said they knew something was up when the owner turned the front yard into a parking lot and added a giant fence.

“They said, ‘Well, we have a big family,’” Jim Saleh said. “And I said, ‘How come you have such a big parking lot?’ And they said, ‘Well, we have a lot of cars. We like cars.’”

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