{"id":354730,"date":"2026-07-28T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354730\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:20:09","slug":"miami-brickell-condo-overrun-by-airbnb-chaos-residents-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354730\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Brickell condo overrun by Airbnb chaos, residents say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Partygoers<\/p>\n

Partygoers stumble back to The Club at Brickell Bay at 4 a.m. March 30, 2026.<\/p>\n

Linda Robertson<\/p>\n

lrobertson@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n

The Club at Brickell Bay, one of Miami\u2019s largest condos, has been overrun by short-term rental chaos as full-time residents dwindle to 15%. A Miami Herald investigation found the city fails to enforce its own ban on Airbnbs in multi-family residential buildings.<\/p>\n

FULL STORY: \u2018Save your condo before it\u2019s too late.\u2019 How Miami condo turned into \u2018Animal House\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n

The 43-story, 643-unit building has roughly 545 units operating as investor-owned Airbnbs, with full-time homeowners and residents reporting wild parties, sex workers in hallways, porn shoots on balconies, drug use and near-daily police calls.Karl de Borbon, the former board president who runs six Airbnbs under the host name \u201cMr. Wonderful,\u201d insists short-term rentals are legal at The Club, telling a code inspector, \u201cI know everybody at the city.\u201d The five-member HOA board controls the building; all officers are in the Airbnb business.The city of Miami dismissed five citations issued to owner-hosts without a code enforcement board hearing or fines after their online listings were briefly removed.Miami\u2019s zoning code prohibits stays under 30 days in multi-family residential buildings without a condo-hotel Certificate of Use. Former Club grievance committee member Alex Fornet says his signature on the building\u2019s 2007 Certificate of Use was forged: \u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned the entire document is a fraud.\u201d In addition, the certificate contains no mention of lodging.Former property manager Yissely Herrouet was arrested in November on four felony charges, accused of stealing more than $142,000 from the HOA through ghost employees and doctored expense reports. She has pleaded not guilty. While she was working at The Club, her mother\u2019s housekeeping company got a contract to clean the building, and she and her relatives purchased five units, which are still operating as Airbnbs.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Condo residents furious after Miami inspectors nix visit; city says hands tied<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The The Club at Brickell Bay, 1200 Brickell Bay Drive, is one of Miami\u2019s largest condo towers with 643 units. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Partygoers stumble back to The Club at Brickell Bay at 4 a.m. March 30, 2026. Linda Robertson lrobertson@miamiherald.com…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-354730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}