An adult business operating is right in the middle of a residential neighborhood. How would you feel if it was "The House Next Door" to you?

More than a dozen Miami police and code inspectors descended on a house in the Edgewater neighborhood on Tuesday. When no one came to the door, officials posted a notice of five code violations.

What's the problem?

It's a normal South Florida neighborhood. Familes live here. Kids play here. There are renovated homes, even a Catholic church -- all in the shadow of the new Miami.

But in this house ...

"Hey, how's it going?" said reporter Jeff Burnside to one of the residents. "Hey, listen we just wanted to ask you..."

Where this man says he works.

"Uh huh. Yeah," the man said.

Something unusual is going on. Something the young men who live here don't seem to want you to know.

"No sir!"

"We just want to chat for a second."

"No sir."

"Is this -- ?"

NBC 6 discovered they're operating a hardcore live internet sex business -- cameras installed in rooms where customers around the world can pay to watch the men who live here have sex with each other on schedule.

"This is? Oh, wow, I had no idea," a neighbor told NBC 6.

And most of the neighbors we spoke to do not like it at all.

"No, it does not belong in this neighborhood. Absolutely not!" neighbor Mary Ann Thom said.

"That's no good. Somebody (needs) to do something," Vanessa Torres said.

"I'm sad to hear that," Adrian Gallon said.

After dark, the men who live here get ready for the scheduled shows -- where neighbors can plainly see things.

In an apparent attempt to alert neighbors, someone anonymously delivered to several homes envelopes that include printouts of the Web site. And this: A DVD.

The DVD shows a fight with a hammer recorded on the house's internet cameras.

Miami police confirm they've been called there four times since September.

"We will not permit it over there," said Mariano Loret de Mola, director of Miami's code enforcement office.

NBC 6 told Miami officials who say the business has failed to get several licenses.

"It's just illegal," de Mola told NBC 6. "It's plainly illegal activity that is not permitted in the city to have an adult entertainment in a residential area."

The Miami sex business used to be in Chicago where health officials found evidence of unsafe sex and moved to shut it down.

"We uncovered significant amount of sexually transmitted diseases, a signficant number of cases of HIV along with syphilis and gonorrhea," said Chris Brown, assistant commissioner of the division of STD/HIV/AIDS for the Chicago Department of Public Health.

But when they went to the building, Brown said, "They were packing up and leaving the city."

And that's when they moved to Miami.

"That kind of shocks me," another resident, Colin Gant, said. "It's not too good. There's a lot of kids in the neighborhood and it's a pretty family-oriented neighborhood."

The man behind the business, Phillip Bleicher, created what the Illinois attorney general called a "bogus" school charity that raised more than three million dollars nationwide and helped finance his porn business called Flava Works -- now headquartered in Miami.

"We're looking for Phillip Bleicher of Flava Works," Burnside asked two men at the company's headquarters in Miami.

Remember the guy from the front door?

"You work for Flava Works?" Burnside askied.

"No," he replied.

"Ever heard of Phillip Bleicher?"

"Who?"

"Phillip Bleicher?"

"No."

Upstairs at the corporate office, still no one was answering questions.

"Refer to the Web Site for a statement. Unless you're here with a warrant, there are no questions that are going to be asked," a company representative said.

"Well, what about Bleicher. Is he here?"

"No."

"When can we speak with him?"

Bleicher's Web site says they promote safe sex "100 percent" and what they're doing is legal, pointing to a court ruling in a Tampa case.

The city of Miami disagrees, and cited them for five code violations including failing to have a license to operating a rooming house, a business or an adult business in a residential neighborhood. The landlord, who was astounded to learn what her tenants were doing, has 10 days to take action.

And as far as the Illinois attorney general's case, that office withdrew the complaint. NBC 6 has learned other agencies may be investigating.

http://www.nbc6.net/news/13283491/de...?dl=mainclick#

Yet another old story with some updates to it...

I wonder what city they will relocate to next?

Regards,

Lee