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Sarasota News Leader July 19, 2013 Page 9 rents for $4,500 a week from January through After researching Florida building codes on April; that drops to $3,900 a week from Sep- the Internet on Nov. 5, 2012, Jones contintember through December. ued in her email, she "started calling various agencies in the [county] …" Once she and her But after Julie Miller Jones of Arden Hills, MN, family members had secured other accommoand members of her family walked inside in early November 2012, Jones was alarmed, dations, she invited Qualey and county Code she wrote in a formal statement for Sarasota Enforcement staff onto the property on Nov. County Fire Safety Inspector Katelyn Qualey. 7 "and stayed with them while they took pictures and documented various areas where "[W]hen we got there we were concerned the property failed to meet standards set by about the safety of all, but particularly families the jurisdiction," she added in her formal with babies staying in the lower level. None of statement. the six rooms in the basement, billed as bedrooms, had windows, egress or sprinkler sys- When Fire Inspector Qualey went into the tems. For the entire space, there was only one house on Nov. 7, 2012, she noted in a report door for egress and a plate glass window in "several areas of concern related to safety the 'kitchen' which would need to be broken — improper exits, TVs hung on walls with in the event of a fire blocking the other door." wire …" The website www.vrbo.com offers information to people interested in renting the house at 6537 Sabal Drive on Siesta Key. Image from www.vrbo.com