Egan: When a neighbour opens a 'ghost hotel' in your backyard

They are sometimes called “ghost hotels,” these Airbnb-style rentals in neighbourhoods all over the city — “ghost” because there’s no front desk, no staff, often just a digital handshake with a nameless, absent owner.
And, as Tracy Penniston discovered, no one to turn to when trouble breaks out, or things go boo in the night.
“I hate being antagonistic about it, but it’s a big accident waiting to happen. It really is,” she said on a sun-dappl