No one was shot, but neighbors are upset and want
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio - Liberty Township leaders are asking the court to get involved after gunshots erupted outside a home rented out for an after-prom party.
They filed suit in Butler County Common Pleas Court Wednesday against the owners of 4817 Granada Court. They want the court to block the owners from renting it out for less than 30 days, especially for just the weekend or one or two nights. Liberty Township has banned short-term rentals for more than a year now, but the zoning code continues to be violated at the property, township records show.
No one was hurt when bullets flew toward the home on Granada Court at the corner of Cordoba Drive early Sunday, according to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office. The township will take every step available to uphold its zoning rules to ensure compliance, trustees promised several residents from the subdivision who came to their bimonthly meeting Tuesday night.
“You guys have our 100% support and resources and effort to get rid of it,” Trustee Todd Minniear said. “Bringing in people from the outside for one-night, two-night parties is not who Liberty Township is. We are a bedroom community and will do everything in our power to remain a bedroom community,” Farrell said.
Less than an hour before, deputies responded to a noise complaint at the home, but left after giving at least one adult inside a warning to keep the party down and telling residents to call them back out if things got loud again. More than a dozen young children and several babies live among families in the subdivision.
“I’m only 11 years old and this is my first time calling. There’s a gunfight going on right now and I’m terrified and I’m shaking really badly,” the child told a dispatcher. Detectives are going through several videos from Ring cameras and cell phones. They also have several names of suspects that they’re looking into at this time,” a sheriff’s spokesperson said Tuesday.
The incident report states, “In the video, you can see muzzle flashes and multiple gunshots. It was discovered that one round went through a window on the North side of the residence and was lodged in a wall inside. The overnight sheriff’s office supervisor overnight Saturday into Sunday, Sgt. Joe Banks, told FOX19 NOW in a phone interview early Sunday that a dozen shots in all were fired.
The man listed in an incident report as the home’s owner, Jason Ross, declined to comment when reached by phone earlier this week. The report states he told deputies he was the owner of the property and it was rented out through “Air B&B.”Ross told deputies he “came to the property due to multiple phone calls from neighbors complaining about a party that was being held thee with approximately 50 people. stated he told everyone they had to leave.
As everyone was leaving, heard multiple gunshots and noticed several individuals running and screaming. stated he was unable to see who fired the shots or where they came from. ” Residents have complained to the township about the home operating as a weekend rental since 2024, township records show.
The rules of the Crescent Moon subdivision’s homeowners association were changed by the developer to allow short-term rentals listed on Vrbo and Airbnb after many, but not all, residents were already there, according to an August 2024 letter to one of them from Fischer Homes obtained by FOX19 NOW. Hoping to resolve the residents’ concerns, Fischer Homes reached out to the developer, seeking to resolve the concerns amicably, the letter states.
However, due to the developer’s control of the HOA rules, “there is a limit to what Fischer Homes can do.
“As of the date of this letter, the developer has refused to cooperate and discuss ways to resolve the residents’ concerns....the Crescent Moon community will continue to allow homeowners to rent out their homes on a short-term basis on websites such as Vrbo/Booking.com and Airbnb for the foreseeable future. ” Butler County property records show LRE 2 LLC purchased the Granada Court home and the one next door from Liberty Township Homes LLC in February 2024, paying a total of $2.175 million for those two properties and a third one in the neighborhood on Cordoba Drive.
However, a deeper dive into property records at Butler County Recorder Danny Crank’s Office shows that a few months later, in May 2024, both homes were sold by LRE 2 LLC at $725,000 a piece under land contracts to Plumtree Rentals LLC, and the purchaser’s signature on the contracts is listed as “Jason Ross, member. ” A land contract is similar to a lease-to-own agreement.
Once the terms of the contract/purchase price are paid, then the property’s deed is transferred to the new owner. In this case, Plumtree Rentals LLC, with Ross as the purchaser, agreed to pay LRE 2 LLC monthly payments on each home of $5,733.25 plus 5% interest, the records show. Olmsted Falls family-owned restaurant owner speaks on fire damagesCleveland Police looking for missing 14-year-old girl
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