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Strata council members of a Downtown Eastside condo building are calling the City of Vancouver’s new licence requirements for short-term rentals flawed and ineffective.

Less than three months after the city passed a new law requiring owners or renters to obtain a licence to list their properties on Airbnb, the owners of condos on East Cordova say their building is overrun by illegal short-term rentals.

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The owners say they are dealing with rowdyism, vandalism, garbage-strewn hallways, a short-term rental guest who urinated on to the sidewalk below and another who parked a Vespa in the lobby.

And large groups of people have been seen moving in and out of the building and leaving their luggage, along with ski equipment, in the lobby, said strata council member Brian Mennie.

A number of storage lockers were broken into on the weekend, leaving the strata with a $2,000 repair bill.

Mennie and fellow owner Amber Hui said the offenders are not residents, renters or locals, but some guests of a handful of suites belonging to owners who are ignoring the strata’s own ban on short-term rentals.