NL Times – AMSTERDAM TO FINE AIRBNB LANDLORDS WHO DON’T REPORT THEIR LISTING
May 3, 2017 The city of Amsterdam is working on obliging residents who want to rent out their property through Airbnb, to report it to the municipality, housing alderman Laurens Ivens said to Nieuwsuur. Those who fail to report their listing, will be fined. “People must report it if they are going to rent out […]
Sacramento Bee – These local governments decide it makes sense to play ball with Airbnb
May 2, 2017 Nevada County this week became the latest municipality – and the first in the Sacramento region – to reach an agreement allowing the fast-growing vacation housing website Airbnb to collect and pay transient occupancy taxes on behalf of its hosts. Airbnb officials also said Monday the company had reached a similar agreement […]
Inc. – How Airbnb Responds When Guests Have Nightmare Experiences
May 3, 2017 On Monday, journalist Nathaniel Friedman unleashed a tweetstorm about his girlfriend’s bad experience as an Airbnb guest. She and two other friends needed a place to stay at the last minute, and all the local hotels were booked, in Friedman’s retelling. Since they were desperate, they looked past the bad reviews and […]
NBC 4 Washington – Airbnb Host Refunds Only 50 Percent After Woman Cancels Reservation Due to Suspicious Activity on Her Account
May 2, 2017 Airbnb alerted a woman to suspicious activity on her account after she booked a rental in Germany, so she canceled her reservation immediately, but she said she only got half of her money back until she contacted NBC4 Responds. Erin Tesch said she used Airbnb for the first time planning an upcoming […]
Albany Times Union – Lentol’s pro-Airbnb bill cribs paragraphs from Airbnb memo
May 2, 2017 It’s not unusual for a special interest group to have influence over state legislation. It’s lessen common for entire paragraphs to be taken directly from an interest group’s memo in support of its cause. That’s what happened in the case of a new bill introduced by Brooklyn Assemblyman Joe Lentol. The bill […]
SF Gate – Airbnb settles SF suit, agrees to register all local hosts
May 1, 2017 Airbnb and HomeAway settled a lawsuit against San Francisco Monday by agreeing to automatically register all their local hosts with the city. While a San Francisco law requiring vacation-rental hosts to register with the city took effect in February 2015, only about 2,100 out of an estimated 8,000 or more hosts have […]
Newsday – Senator hits Airbnb’s ‘astroturf’ lobbying effort
May 1, 2017 ALBANY — A day ahead of Airbnb’s big lobby day at the State Capitol, one senator accused the company of conducting a phony grass roots effort. Sen. Liz Krueger also ridiculed Airbnb’s upcoming rally as part of a push to increase the company’s valuation before making a public stock offering. “Once again […]
CTV News – Landlord stuck with $1,200 fine as tenants rent out condo illegally
April 29, 2017 Gerry Galiatsatos’ condo in the fashionable St. Henri area has proven to be a hit with travelers looking for a place to stay in Montreal but that popularity is now costing him more than $1,000. On the apartment sharing app Airbnb, the unit in the Imperial Lofts has been rented out at […]
The Independent – Rude guests, broken wi-fi and a lot of floor scrubbing – this is what it’s really like to be an Airbnb host
April 30, 2017 The secretary general of the UN World Tourism Organisation (I know, me neither) has news for hotels. Shut up about Airbnb: the sharing economy is here to stay. The hotel industry “should realize that it is not going to go away,” Taleb Rifai said at a Tourism Global Summit this week that […]
KTNV (VIDEO) – Airbnb renters upsetting Vegas residents
April 28, 2017 Residents are upset at houses in neighborhood being used for Airbnb. A man claims that his quite Las Vegas neighborhood is being disturbed by countless Airbnb renters and wants a change to occur. The man would like Mayor Goodman to pass a law keeping Airbnb out of residential communities. Airbnb’s popularity is […]