Short-term vacation rentals are illegal in Lake Worth Beach. So, why won’t the city crack down?

"We might as well be staying in a Motel 6.’ Every morning you wake up, you’ve got new neighbors.’’

THE WHOOPING AND yelling by the women around the pool had been going on for an hour when suddenly the noise morphed into a primordial chant usually heard at strip clubs, loud enough to breach the windows of nearby houses.

“Take it off! Take it off!’’

Was I dreaming?

It was 1:30 in the morning and another good time was being had next door by the latest occupants of the “party house’’ in Lake Worth Beach’s College Park neighborhood.

“The party house” is how neighbors, including this writer, refer to the two-story Spanish Mediterranean on the northwest corner of Federal Highway and Fordham Drive, and it’s not a term of endearment.