From the Philadelphia Inquirer

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee … and party like there’s no tomorrow? Evidently, that’s the motto at Muhammad Ali’s former home in Cherry Hill, where raucous celebrations from renters are disrupting the neighbors. Now, township officials hope to implement a ban on short-term rentals to shut it down.

Muhammad Ali only lived there for two years over four decades ago, but the party at the famed boxer’s former Cherry Hill mansion has yet to throw in the towel.

In fact, since the 10,000-square-foot “Ali House” was listed on Airbnb in October 2018, it’s become a hub for large parties and catered events that have drawn loud crowds, fistfights, massive parking jams, frequent visits from police — and increasingly unhappy neighbors and township officials, who say the rental’s business practices violate zoning code.

In a measure that officials say is likely to pass next week, Cherry Hill’s township council will consider banning short-term rentals, a move which may knock out the revelry at the residence for good.

But while the party may potentially be winding down at this New Jersey Airbnb, elsewhere on the Garden State rental market, the festivities and fist-pumping are just getting started.

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