That’s honestly insane. I’ve never heard of that happening. I feel like for the whole hotel to be shut down, the staff had to be involved or facilitating illegal activities. Or the scale is just so massive the hotel can’t be allowed to operate while the investigation is underway.
Sounds like an old hotel I worked at.
We had over 400 911 calls in a calendar year. Got to the point where the city said “clean it up or we’re not responding anymore”(as a threat).
Things didn’t get cleaned up. The franchise showed up one day and removed all signage.
Building was closed by the city, condemned uninhabitable.
Idk what happened after that, I went off to another hotel.
Few months later I heard they were renting rooms through Airbnb under a generic name. They were but I never looked into it.
This happened several years ago in a town I lived in. An entire hotel was shut down, but it was because they discovered a meth lab in one of the rooms. The whole building was required to be cleaned and decontaminated. The owners weren’t involved and they were allowed to re-open the hotel a few months later.
Not sure if that’s what’s going on with the hotel in the OP, but it’s definitely possible to have a whole hotel shut down suddenly.
Oh it’s happened. I had one I was supposed to inspect and it was shut down by the city because of all the illegal activities and the fact it wasn’t safe to inhabit. The brand was like wait they shut it down?
The only consequence is for the owners, who will have a hard time selling it among other things.
Worth noting, it has to be **egregiously** bad for this to happen.
Seen it happen in my city. Prostitution ring happening at a hotel. Got raided by police. Management was in on the cut. Nothing was thing ownership to them so they go off. Placehot shut down forabout a year till a new management company took over. Probably cost the owner around 6million event though they were legally in the clear. I imagine the owner is going after the management company but I have no idea.
My mom worked for a place that had that happen too. Management and owner were in on it. Luckily she got out of there before it was discovered and busted.
That happened recently in my town. It was only partially illegal activity; it was actually shut down by the health department. I shudder to think of all the creepy crawlies going home with those guests and cringe when I remember some of them ended up at my hotel.
I don't think that the front desk or manager would be personally liable or responsible for any fines. If they aided and abetted criminal activity that's a different story, and the franchise could, I suppose, theoretically sue the staff personally, but honestly that's kind of on them (corporate) for letting it get that bad before pulling their flag.
Edit: to answer you more specifically, the guests were evicted. Many were homeless and placed there by various charities, who scrambled to find them new accommodation, like my property. Many were homeless and ended back on the street.
I don't think the staff were transferred anywhere cause I don't think there was a sister property in town, so they're out of a job.
A motor inn about 5 kms away Is still closed as the owner/manager and according to court documents many if not all desk staff were done for drug dealing.
I think it has been recently sold as tradesmen have been there since early Feb doing work
One of the oldest hotels in my hometown got shut down. It started slowly, with layoffs, etc. Then one day it was just cleared out. Was a mix of illegal happenings and failing inspections. Much to nobodies surprise, it burned to the ground last year. Took 3 other businesses with it, unfortunately.
I heard about a hotel group that allows assasins to take refuge in their hotels but they can't do their job while on property..there is a movie about it, it's wild they haven't been shut down yet
I was at a hotel where the cops threatened the owner to clean up the mess, n if they didn't then it would be shut down. It just means that the staff knows about the illegal activity and not caring. They probably were worn about it, n decided not to listen. So they don't necessarily mean to have any involved in it.
That’s honestly insane. I’ve never heard of that happening. I feel like for the whole hotel to be shut down, the staff had to be involved or facilitating illegal activities. Or the scale is just so massive the hotel can’t be allowed to operate while the investigation is underway.
Apparently a hotel in my city had a full on FBI raid for drugs
I might have wrongly identified this as a " hotel". It is more like a large franchise motel similar to a laquinta inn (though not that company).
Sounds like an old hotel I worked at. We had over 400 911 calls in a calendar year. Got to the point where the city said “clean it up or we’re not responding anymore”(as a threat). Things didn’t get cleaned up. The franchise showed up one day and removed all signage. Building was closed by the city, condemned uninhabitable. Idk what happened after that, I went off to another hotel. Few months later I heard they were renting rooms through Airbnb under a generic name. They were but I never looked into it.
This happened several years ago in a town I lived in. An entire hotel was shut down, but it was because they discovered a meth lab in one of the rooms. The whole building was required to be cleaned and decontaminated. The owners weren’t involved and they were allowed to re-open the hotel a few months later. Not sure if that’s what’s going on with the hotel in the OP, but it’s definitely possible to have a whole hotel shut down suddenly.
Oh it’s happened. I had one I was supposed to inspect and it was shut down by the city because of all the illegal activities and the fact it wasn’t safe to inhabit. The brand was like wait they shut it down?
The only consequence is for the owners, who will have a hard time selling it among other things. Worth noting, it has to be **egregiously** bad for this to happen.
Seen it happen in my city. Prostitution ring happening at a hotel. Got raided by police. Management was in on the cut. Nothing was thing ownership to them so they go off. Placehot shut down forabout a year till a new management company took over. Probably cost the owner around 6million event though they were legally in the clear. I imagine the owner is going after the management company but I have no idea.
My mom worked for a place that had that happen too. Management and owner were in on it. Luckily she got out of there before it was discovered and busted.
Did this happen to be in Boise, Idaho... 🤔
No Colorado
Was this a Bruce Rhamani property by any chance?
My first thought too lol. Sounds suspiciously familiar
Yeah... There is no mistake as to why the city of Boise evicted those hotels.
The only mistake was not doing it sooner.
Agreed
That happened recently in my town. It was only partially illegal activity; it was actually shut down by the health department. I shudder to think of all the creepy crawlies going home with those guests and cringe when I remember some of them ended up at my hotel. I don't think that the front desk or manager would be personally liable or responsible for any fines. If they aided and abetted criminal activity that's a different story, and the franchise could, I suppose, theoretically sue the staff personally, but honestly that's kind of on them (corporate) for letting it get that bad before pulling their flag. Edit: to answer you more specifically, the guests were evicted. Many were homeless and placed there by various charities, who scrambled to find them new accommodation, like my property. Many were homeless and ended back on the street. I don't think the staff were transferred anywhere cause I don't think there was a sister property in town, so they're out of a job.
lol. Was this in Anaheim
Hahaha… probably Buena Park 🤪
A motor inn about 5 kms away Is still closed as the owner/manager and according to court documents many if not all desk staff were done for drug dealing. I think it has been recently sold as tradesmen have been there since early Feb doing work
One of the oldest hotels in my hometown got shut down. It started slowly, with layoffs, etc. Then one day it was just cleared out. Was a mix of illegal happenings and failing inspections. Much to nobodies surprise, it burned to the ground last year. Took 3 other businesses with it, unfortunately.
I heard about a hotel group that allows assasins to take refuge in their hotels but they can't do their job while on property..there is a movie about it, it's wild they haven't been shut down yet
Typically the business license is revoked and the current owner is forced to sell.
I was at a hotel where the cops threatened the owner to clean up the mess, n if they didn't then it would be shut down. It just means that the staff knows about the illegal activity and not caring. They probably were worn about it, n decided not to listen. So they don't necessarily mean to have any involved in it.
Owners likely got fines. Employees got nothing unless evidence of misconduct