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Airbnb offering, and seeking, free rooms in Florida and Georgia for Hurricane Irma
Airbnb is using its online vacation rental marketplace to connect those with a safe space to offer to those in need of temporary shelter during Hurricane Irma.
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Homeowners faced an Airbnb nightmare as renters left them facing huge fines, angry neighbors
Drew Grewal faced fines of nearly half a million dollars because his Miami Beach home was being listed illegally on Airbnb. In Miami Beach — as in New York, San Diego and many other U.S. cities — short-term rentals of the kind facilitated by Airbnb, VRBO, Tripadvisor and others are strictly limited. Laws, fees and taxes vary regionally, but fines for violations are typically high. In Miami Beach, the fines run at $20,000 for a first violation and rise from there.
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Airbnb dominated by professional landlords
Holiday apartment platform Airbnb is being over-run by firms with massive turnovers, new research in Germany suggests. More and more cities are bringing in legislation to counter the problem.
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Side hustles are the new norm. Here’s how much they really pay.
Nearly 1 in 4 Americans now earns money from the digital ‘platform economy’.
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Did Airbnb Kill the Mountain Town?
Brian Barker was living in Portland, Oregon, with a well-paying union job as a spokesperson for the fire department. But despite having “a job you don’t leave”—he had an itch. “I wanted to go live in the mountains,” he says. “I didn’t want to sit in traffic all the time. I was tired of living in the city.”
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Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race
An Airbnb host who canceled a woman’s reservation because of her race has agreed to pay $5,000 in damages and take a course in Asian American studies, a state regulatory agency announced Thursday. The host, Tami Barker, told the woman who reserved her Big Bear cabin for a ski vacation in February that she would not rent to an Asian, justifying the action by adding in a text message, “It’s why we have Trump,” referring to President Trump.
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Inside the Hotel Industry’s Plan to Combat Airbnb
Newly obtained documents show how the American Hotel and Lodging Association is taking steps to curb the online short-term rental company.
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Airbnb Checks Out of Russia
A traditional yurt on a pasturing site along Russia’s border with Mongolia. A remote cabin in the Russian arctic advertising a view of the northern lights. Or an 18th century manor house on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, complete with crystal chandeliers and a 25-hectare garden. More than two decades after communism, the San Francisco rental site Airbnb came to Russia in 2012. It promised to usher in the era of the sharing economy—replacing Soviet-era kommunalkas with hipster apartments.
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How much it will cost to create virtual reality estate tour?
How much it will cost to create virtual reality estate tour? AirBnB with simple step by step guide with cost calculation to increate sales? In this article, we are going to talk about VR tours which are fairly useful to businesses to present themselves. It will be very useful for hotels, real estate agencies, museums and so on. Let us guide you through 5 simple steps to build your own Virtual Reality tour. You will see that it is much easier than you might have ever imagined.
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Airbnb just closed a $1 billion round and became profitable in 2016
Airbnb has closed on a more than $1 billion round of funding, a source close to the company told CNBC. The round was confirmed in an SEC filing that dropped on Thursday. It is now worth approximately $31 billion. The company raised roughly an additional $450 million as part of its Series F round, making the round nearly twice as much as it stood last fall. The total amount raised was $1,003,312,065, according to the filing.
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Ontario court ruling says condo buildings can ban sharing services such as Airbnb
With some help from NASA satellites, the Global Positioning System could be key to getting a better understanding of hurricanes, and help improve forecasts for their strength when they make landfalls. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission will use radio signals from the GPS satellites to measure the wind speed near the ground in the tropics, between 35 degrees north and 35 degrees south where most hurricanes are born.
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Toronto convicts first Airbnb owner over zoning violation
The owner of the house on Glenelia Ave., which was the scene of a shooting in March, pleads guilty to a zoning violation.
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Hotel CEO openly celebrates higher prices after anti-Airbnb law passes
A hotel executive said a recently-passed New York law cracking down on Airbnb hosts will enable the company to raise prices for New York City hotel rooms, according to the transcript of the executive's words on a call with shareholders last week. The law, signed by New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday, slaps anyone who lists their apartment on a short-term rental site with a fine up to $7,500. It "should be a big boost in the arm for the business," Mike Barnello, chief executive of the hotel chain LaSalle Hotel Properties, said of the law last Thursday, "certainly in terms of the pricing.”
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Airbnb raising a reported $850M at a $30B valuation
Tech unicorn and sharing economy darling Airbnb has informed the State of Delaware that it’s raising another heap of cash. TechCrunch independently verified that Airbnb indicated in a 28 page filing on July 28th that it has plans to bring in additional late-stage capital. Almost a year after its last raise of $1.6 billion, the company is said to be adding $850 million to its coffers, according to information obtained by Equidate.
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Welcome to AirSpace
How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world. By Kyle Chayka.
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I’m a black man. Here’s what happened when I booked an Airbnb.
This is a story of an AIRBNB experience I recently went through. I met this awesome lady Crissie in my Facebook Group. Super nice lady, successful business owner, beautiful family, and they live in a small town in Idaho. Crissie would post these amazing videos of the land and the snow, and the mountains and trees, and I told her one day I would come visit. It‘s so absolutely beautiful there!
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You won't be able to rent an Airbnb apartment in Berlin for much longer
Berlin has banned tourists from renting entire apartments through Airbnb and its competitors in an attempt to protect affordable housing. With the help of large fines, the German city's authorities are hoping to protect the property supply and keep rents as low as possible. After the success of the various online rental portals, the number of properties available for long-term rental periods had fallen markedly
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Airbnb to purge illegal hotels from San Francisco listings
Airbnb says it is cracking down on San Francisco hosts who violate the city’s law on short-term rentals. Starting Saturday, it will investigate hosts who control multiple listings and will jettison “unwelcome commercial operators” — people running illegal hotels in private homes. “We want to continually evolve the platform so it serves the best interest of each city we’re in,” said Chris Lehane, the former Clinton White House spin doctor and “master of disaster” who is now...
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Airbnb guests shocked by decomposing corpse in garden
A group of friends who rented a house on Airbnb for a party weekend in a French town got a nasty surprise when they discovered the decomposing body of a woman in the garden. “Her body was found at the bottom of the property which opens out into a woods,” a police source said. Foul play is suspected.
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Porn Industry Uses Airbnb, Rental Houses for Filming
Nearly four years after Los Angeles County passed new requirements for pornographic performers, the porn industry has spread to nearby counties like Ventura County — and much of that filming is happening in residents' homes with or without their knowledge, the NBC4 I-Team has learned. Private citizens believe their home is being rented out for a few days — perhaps never knowing it's become the set of a raunchy pornographic title.
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