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		<title>Remote workers descend on Mexico City, housing prices surge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Karina Franco’s ornate Art Deco building in the historic center of Mexico City has long been the heart of a downtown lifestyle, housing families of artists and activists and supporting an ecosystem of street vendors. But as the pandemic upended office norms, a wave of remote workers from around the world descended on Mexico City, the country’s capital. The flow of foreigners has yet to slow down, causing housing costs to rise, displacing residents and upending the fabric of neighborhoods. In August, Franco and the other tenants in her building were told by their landlord that their leases would not be renewed. Some units soon appeared on Airbnb — at rates more than four times the monthly rent — and new neighbors, mostly speaking English, now fill the hallways. “It was very shocking at first,’ said Franco, 47, a migrant rights worker who found a new apartment in a different part of the city. “Then I felt angry.’ Since the pandemic, Mexico City has become a leading global hub for foreigners unshackled from their offices by work-from-home policies and drawn to the kind of comfort a salary paid in dollars or euros can afford. Between January and October, more than 9,500 permits were issued to Americans allowing them to temporarily reside in Mexico City, according to federal immigration statistics, nearly double the 5,400 issued in the same period in 2019. Many more entered on tourist visas, which allow them to work from Mexico for up to six months as long as they are paid abroad. The influx has been a boon for business owners in areas popular with foreigners and landlords taking advantage of record demand for long-term stays on platforms like Airbnb. It has also helped Mexicans with spare rooms to earn extra income amid soaring inflation. The Victoria building that was sold to be converted into short-term rentals, displacing 25 Mexican families, in Mexico City, Dec. 23, 2022. Americans and Europeans are using Airbnb to find long-term rentals in Mexico’s capital, pushing housing costs higher and, critics say, forcing out local residents. (Alejandro Cegarra/The New York Times) But the surge has jolted the already tightening housing market, threatening to make large swaths of the city, where the average monthly salary is $220, unaffordable to many locals. Mexico City’s leftist mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum, has sought to navigate the changing market by embracing the transplants and partnering with Airbnb on a campaign that promotes the city as a “capital for creative tourism” that encourages foreigners to spend money in less well-off neighborhoods. But as the jump in American and European visitors fuels a rapid expansion of Airbnb, the mayor’s alliance with the rental giant has ignited an argument that’s enveloped the platform in other major cities, from London to New York to San Francisco, where critics have accused it of driving up housing costs. Housing activists, wary of gentrification and a shortage of rental housing in the sprawling capital, have accused city leaders of spurring a modern day “colonization” that is pricing out many Mexicans. Sergio González, a housing activist, said there would be a “big problem” if the city government did not regulate the housing market at a time when remote workers are leading to the “forced displacement of families.” Amid the backlash, the mayor has acknowledged that American and European remote workers may be putting pressure on housing prices and has directed the city’s housing authority to study the effect of Airbnb. “The digital nomads are arriving,” Sheinbaum told reporters in November. “Obviously, we don’t want this to mean gentrification or price increases.” According to Airbnb, between April and June of this year, the number of stays booked in Mexico City on the platform for longer than a month increased by 30% compared with the same period in 2019, making the city one of the more popular destinations worldwide among long-term renters. In the Condesa and Roma neighborhoods, whose lush streetscapes and dynamic food scenes have long made them attractive to wealthier residents, co-working spaces offering free coffee and cubicles have proliferated. Tourists from the United States walk along Madero Boulevard in downtown Mexico City, Dec. 23, 2022. Americans and Europeans are using Airbnb to find long-term rentals in Mexico’s capital, pushing housing costs higher and, critics say, forcing out local residents. (Alejandro Cegarra/The New York Times) English speakers pour out of cafes and, on Sundays, cantinas are packed with young people in sports jerseys, the televisions switched from soccer to American football. The city’s campaign with Airbnb, which is scheduled to fully roll out on the platform’s website early next year, is meant to spread out the crowds. It will promote guided activities, designed with the help of UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural organization, in neighborhoods that do not typically receive a high number of visitors, according to the company and city officials. Airbnb will also provide information on moving to Mexico, including visa requirements. Miroslava Miyarath Lazcano Cruz, who has offered tours through Airbnb since 2019, started a new tour on Airbnb in October of Xochimilco, the working-class neighborhood where she lives, that is serving as a model for the program. The tour includes preparing tamales from handpicked ingredients and floating along the neighborhood’s famous network of ancient canals. The experience has seen high demand, introducing tourists to the markets and customs of a part of the capital that’s not widely explored by outsiders. Lazcano Cruz said the visitors who have come through Airbnb have “a vision and a thirst to get to know the space in a different way.” Suvi Haering, a Finnish creative director who arrived in Mexico City in November after two months working remotely in France, said working and living in Mexico “pushes you to challenge your own thinking.” “It’s the polar opposite of where I come from, hence it’s the most inspiring place I can go to,” said Haering, as she ate at a restaurant in the Roma neighborhood with a friend, a project manager from Denmark, who was staying]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How the Airbnb ‘gold rush’ could impact the homebuying market</title>
		<link>https://www.hoaalliance.org/how-the-airbnb-gold-rush-could-impact-the-homebuying-market/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Sam Kemmis &#124; NerdWallet.com Airbnb’s business is booming. The popular platform reported its highest revenue and profit ever in the third quarter of 2022, due in large part to strong demand and higher daily rates. The surging vacation rental industry has caught the attention of real estate investors and entrepreneurs, who have been amassing large portfolios of short-term rental properties to cash in on the boom. “Over the last three years in the world of real estate investing, short-term rentals have been sort of a gold rush,” says Tony J. Robinson, co-host of The Real Estate Rookie podcast. Similar to the actual gold rushes in the 19th century, he says, many investors were drawn to short-term rental investment without the appropriate tools or skills. “I think a lot of people who jumped in looking to make a quick buck will back out.” According to an article in Bloomberg Markets , many of these pop-up Airbnb empires were funded with risky loans backed not by large down payments or borrower salaries, but by the potential future earnings of the rentals themselves. If the short-term rental boom were to bust, it could spell serious trouble for these investors and the banks that funded them. Few experts predict a full-on housing crash like the one we saw from 2008-2014, in part because lending standards are much higher for residential mortgages now than they were in the years leading up to 2008. Yet the loans supporting these vacation rentals entrepreneurs could rest on shakier ground. Rather than being inundated by foreclosures from underwater homeowners, the property market — particularly in tourism-dependent areas — could get oversupplied by the very investors who were snapping up houses throughout the pandemic: Airbnb landlords. “At a national level, a wholesale dumping of Airbnb houses would be needed to create a crash,” said Jaime Peters, assistant dean of accounting, economics and finance at Maryville University’s John E. Simon School of Business in an email interview. Demand far outstrips supply in the current housing market, where many home buyers have shopped for months, and made multiple offers, without succeeding in a purchase. “There are less than 800,000 homes on the market nationwide,” according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, adds Peters. “That level of inventory is still really low.” If Airbnb investors sold their properties and freed up supply, in other words, it could offer some relief for harried homebuyers. A supply glut Airbnb hosts keep adding new listings at a breakneck pace. Total short-term rental supply in the U.S. reached 1.38 million listings in September, up 23% compared with the same time last year, according to AirDNA, an industry analytics firm. A whopping 62% of active listings have been added since 2020. Geographically, these new listings are not evenly distributed. The Phoenix and Scottsdale market saw a 44% increase year over year, while Las Vegas saw a 36% increase in new listings. Meanwhile, these Sun Belt cities are now experiencing some of the fastest-dropping housing prices in the country, down 4.4% and 4.8%, respectively, from their peaks in the spring, according to AEI Housing Center. The number of short-term rental listings in small-town and rural areas nearly doubled between May 2019 and May 2022, according to a joint report by AirDNA and STR, another analytics firm. This follows a trend of U.S. travelers seeking fresh air and solitude during the pandemic, but could prove disastrous for Airbnb landlords in these areas if travel patterns return to normal. “Rural areas are in danger,” says Peters. “The lack of alternative uses of grand rental mansions, with hot tubs, game rooms and sweeping vistas in rural areas make them particularly vulnerable. A small apartment in New York City can always be converted back into the (typically less profitable) long-term rental, but that is difficult with a seven-bedroom mansion in rural Georgia.” Robinson, who manages 30 properties across the country, shares similar concerns about a potential slowdown in demand for rural vacation rentals. “If I try to convert my Tennessee properties into long-term rentals, I wouldn’t make money,” he says. “So I would be motivated to sell.” Softening demand, increasing scrutiny Hosts themselves have already begun ringing the alarm about an “Airbnbust ,” based on a viral tweet from a host in October. This has coincided with a backlash against Airbnb among guests and media pundits, who have complained about high prices, confusing fees and disappointing rentals. The CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, recently addressed these concerns on Twitter, saying “I’ve heard you loud and clear,” and promising to improve these experiences for guests. Yet whether because of disgruntled guests, inflation or changes in travel patterns, demand for vacation rentals does seem to be softening. In its third-quarter financial results, Airbnb lowered its forecasts for Q4 revenue. And data from AirDNA indicates that occupancy (the share of available nights that are booked) has dropped 1.2% year over year, suggesting that supply is indeed outpacing demand. And the short-term rental industry faces other headwinds that could cause many Airbnb landlords to dump their portfolios, beyond simple supply and demand. The New Orleans City Council recently passed a temporary ban on new short-term rentals in October. And the city of Palm Springs, California, a popular vacation rental destination, placed a cap on the number of these rentals allowed per neighborhood. “In areas where tourism is the main attraction, there are two dangers,” says Peters. “The growing popularity and supply of Airbnbs means more competition and, thus, lower prices. Second, when demand slows down — such as a recession — leveraged, amateur owners are likely to be the first to need to sell.” Sam Kemmis writes for NerdWallet. Email: skemmis@nerdwallet.com. Twitter: @samsambutdif. Written by Nerdwallet &#124; Shared from OC Register]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Airbnb says house party complaints have dropped 70% in Georgia</title>
		<link>https://www.hoaalliance.org/airbnb-says-house-party-complaints-have-dropped-70-in-georgia/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Written By Patrick Quinn Published: Sep. 22, 2022 at 11:33 PM EDT &#160; ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) &#8211; – On Thursday, regional leaders, real estate professionals, and property owners gathered in downtown Atlanta to discuss the latest regulations surrounding short-term rentals in Atlanta. Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington led the discussion as part of his role with the HOA Alliance. &#160; On the panel, an official from Airbnb addressed concerns of house parties associated to Airbnb rentals. &#160; “Airbnb has a no party policy on our platform. Period,” said Nia Keith Brown, Southeast Public Policy Manager for Airbnb. &#160; “It’s not good for our community trust, which is the foundation of the longevity of our business on one side, but also just being decent generally,” said Brown, in front of a small crowd in downtown Atlanta. &#160; Brown said that complaints about house parties tied to Atlanta Airbnb rentals have dropped 70% in the last year, since the company changed its policies around house parties. &#160; She said they have ramped up their efforts to crack down on any hosts or renters who violate these policies. &#160; Any neighbor who has a complaint against a potential house party tied to an Airbnb can &#160; Some community members asked about how to best work with their HOAs or property owners to allow them to operate an Airbnb. &#160; In Atlanta, one apartment complex has this sign posted reads, “No Airbnb. No Short term rentals. Any person entering the building for this purpose will be charged with trespassing.” &#160; Erin Glynn, real estate attorney, said you can try and work with your HOA to make exceptions. &#160; “There are definitely ways to get the HOAs on board but if they’re not, you have three choices. Abide by the rules, change the rules, or leave,” said Glynn. &#160; Atlanta passed new regulations around short-term rentals earlier this year. They went into effect in March. However, according to its website, these regulations will not be enforced until Dec. 5. &#160; Copyright 2022 WGCL. All rights reserved. &#160;  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Airbnb Introduces &#8216;Anti-Party Technology&#8217; To Enforce Permanent Party Ban</title>
		<link>https://www.hoaalliance.org/airbnb-introduces-anti-party-technology-to-enforce-permanent-party-ban/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The San Francisco-based company is debuting new software designed to prevent potential and existing customers from hosting large soirées without first obtaining permission from the host. The company announced it will begin testing the software in the U.S. and Canada in an attempt to spot &#8220;high-risk reservations&#8221; early on in the booking process. The company announced in June that a temporary ban on parties in Airbnbs would be made permanent. It said when it tested the anti-party tech in pockets of Australia last fall, it found that &#8220;unauthorized parties&#8221; dropped 35%.  &#8220;We anticipate that this new system will help prevent more bad actors on our platform while having less of a blunt impact on guests who are not trying to throw a party,&#8221; the company said in the announcement. &#8220;While we are optimistic that this technology will have a positive impact for the safety of our community and our goal to reduce unauthorized parties — we want to be clear that no system is perfect.&#8221; Airbnb said the new system identifies and screens data such as past reviews, residency, length of stay and if the stay is a weekday or weekend affair. If the tech deems a reservation &#8220;high-risk,&#8221; it blocks the user from having access to book homes, but it would still allow private room and hotel reservations. The tech is built off the company&#8217;s internal controls preventing customers under 25 from booking entire homes. Airbnb allows the stays if a guest has three or more glowing reviews and no negative feedback. Nearly two months ago, Airbnb launched an international crackdown on house parties after having originally introduced the temporary no-party measure at the height of the pandemic in 2020. To date, Airbnb says the no-party tech has reduced clandestine gatherings by 44%. Contact Alex Gratereaux at Alex.Gratereaux@bisnow.com Written by Alex.Gratereaux@bisnow.com &#124; Shared from Bisnow]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Battle Over Ready-to-Rent Condos in Miami</title>
		<link>https://www.hoaalliance.org/battle-over-ready-to-rent-condos-in-miami-2/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Condominium developments that allow owners to rent their units have multiplied in Miami, promising to turn the city’s urban core into a hub of high-rise home sharing. Speedy pre-construction sellouts of these niche developments suggest the market for rental-ready condos remains underbuilt in Miami. In just five months, for example, Related Group reserved all 343 of the fully furnished units planned for District 225, a condo development in the West Brickell area that the Miami-based company has designed and promoted in collaboration with Airbnb, the dominant home-sharing platform. A website for the 37-story development in downtown Miami urges viewers to, “Live at District 225. Host at Airbnb.” “We were expecting that we would be 40 to 60 percent sold in five months. We caught lightning in a bottle,” said Eric Fordin, a managing director at Related Group, which in late January was preparing to start construction of the condo’s foundations. “Related has a license agreement with Airbnb. We basically designed the amenities and the operations for the building to work symbiotically with Airbnb,” Fordin said. Going through Airbnb to rent a unit at District 225 will be optional, though the system is designed to function seamlessly with Airbnb, he said. Compared to typical buyers of South Florida condos, the buyers who have deposited money to reserve units at District 225 are younger, and a larger than usual percentage of them are American citizens, Fordin said. Pre-construction sale prices range from $300,000 for studios to $800,000 for two-bedroom units. “This is definitely catering to a new type of buyer in South Florida,” he said. Related Group also plans to cater to that type of buyer with another home-sharing development in Miami. In partnership with Fort Lauderdale-based Merrimac Ventures, Related is developing The Crosby, a 33-story, 450-unit condominium without rental restrictions at Miami WorldCenter, a master-planned, mixed-use development spanning 27 acres in downtown Miami. Buyers will be able to rent the furnished units on any home-sharing platform as often as they want. Pre-construction sales began in January, with prices starting in the $300,000s. Other condo projects with liberal rental rules include Smart Brickell, a three-tower development under construction just west of Miami’s Brickell Avenue financial district. Smart Brickell will have nearly 300 furnished units that owners can rent up to 50 times a year through such platforms as Airbnb, Sonder and Vrbo. Miami-based developer Habitat Group launched pre-construction sales for the third tower in December 2021 after selling out the first two towers. Prices start in the mid-$400,000s. These developments are unfolding in downtown zones within Miami where the city allows short-term rentals for fewer than 30 days per booking, also known as “vacation rentals.” The city of Miami Beach also limits short-term rentals to certain zones within city limits, which are concentrated along the oceanfront and in the bayfront area south of Dade Boulevard. Miami Beach once charged $20,000 for the first violation of its short-term rental rules. But in July 2020, an appellate court upheld a lower court ruling that the city’s steep fines violated state laws that limit the dollar amount to $5,000 or less. “They were getting a lot of cases where buildings that were meant to be apartments were actually becoming transient-use hotels, and it was leading to a lot of problems. So, that’s why Miami Beach did what they did,” said Joseph Hernandez, an attorney with Weiss Serota Helfman Cole + Bierman. Some Airbnb hosts in the Miami area comply with government regulations of short-term rentals but violate condo association rules that prohibit them, Hernandez said. He represents the owners’ association at a 250-unit condominium on Miami Beach where many of the units are listed for rent on Airbnb despite association rules that prohibit the practice. “If you looked on Airbnb’s website, of the 250 units, you could probably see 40 or 50 of them advertising right out in the open,” he said without identifying the condo. The fines the outlaw owners pay to the association for condo-rule violations are so small that “they are making more money renting than they are having to pay in fines.” Developing a high-rise condo from the start with liberal short-term rental rules can minimize conflict among neighbors, Fordin said, citing Related’s District 225 project. “It’s essentially an Airbnb community, right? Everybody knows what they’re getting into from the onset — as opposed to someone who bought in a neighborhood that is supposed to be all neighbors living next to each other,” he said. “You see and read that neighborhoods are under attack by all these corporations that are buying homes that become Airbnbs and destroy the fabric of neighborhoods. I would say the opposite is true for a property like this, that is truly designed to be an Airbnb.” Condo developers initially set rules for renting units, which associations of owners can vote to perpetuate. “Historically, in Miami condominiums, you typically can rent twice a year, max, and that’s how they restrict how much you can rent that unit,” said Ryan Shear, managing partner of New York City-based Property Markets Group (PMG), a national real estate development, investment and asset management firm. Some developers in Miami are opting for condo projects that allow owners to rent their units for a minimum term of 30 days, or a maximum frequency of 12 times a year. For example, PMG is co-developing condominium units at E11even Hotel &#038; Residences, a two-tower project in downtown Miami pairing a condo and a condo-hotel, where condo owners who rent their units will have to do so for at least 30 days per booking. “They’re both condos. One tower has a rental program, and you can contribute your unit into the rental program, so it functions as a condo-hotel,” Shear said. “The other tower is just a straight condo that allows people to rent. But it’s a minimum [term] of 30 days.” From November of last year through January, buyers reserved about 230 of the 460 condo units planned for E11even Hotel &#038; Residences. Nearly all the 411 condo-hotel units were reserved in the first half of 2021. “I expected this to go well, but it’s gone above and beyond what]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The New Place of Public Accommodation Lawsuits: Airbnb</title>
		<link>https://www.hoaalliance.org/the-new-place-of-public-accommodation-lawsuits-airbnb/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A years-long battle between Airbnb and Oregon users of the platform has seemingly reached its culmination, but what implications does this new policy have for the company as a whole? In 2017, Patricia Harrington, now deceased, filed a class action claim against Airbnb under the Oregon Public Accommodations Act. [1] The Oregon Public Accommodations Act defines a public accommodation as “any place or service offering to the public accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges whether in the nature of goods, services, lodgings, amusements, transportation or otherwise”. [2] The plaintiffs in the lawsuit alleged that since Airbnb hosts are able to see the photograph and name of a prospective guest before they complete and accept their booking, they were able to discriminate on the basis of race. [3] The court noted that Airbnb is also aware that African-Americans are less likely to be confirmed as guests on the platform and that some hosts’ accommodations are unavailable to African-American travelers because they refuse to rent accommodations to them. [4] A 2016 Harvard Business School Paper found that this is true. [5] The study found that “requests from guests with distinctively African-American names are roughly 16% less likely to be accepted than identical guests with distinctively White names”. [6] The problem, Ms. Harrington alleged, was with the website design itself. [7] The continued use of profile photos, even after Airbnb was aware of the implications behind them [8] , enabled and facilitated discrimination on the platform. [9] In 2018, Airbnb responded by changing the policy on photos and committed themselves to “review and update the way profile names are displayed to hosts as part of the booking process”. [10] The Harrington case was also settled out of court. [11] It was unclear at the time whether this settlement would have any affect on Airbnb’s policies further than the commitments that they had made in 2018, [12] but now nearly two and a half years after the settlement, a new policy has been created. [13] The update that Airbnb made in late December of 2021 stated that they have taken new steps to change their response to discrimination on their platform. [14] Airbnb changed the way that they display profile photos “to encourage more objective bookings” [15] and created Project Lighthouse, a methodology focused on data privacy created in conjunction with the Color of Change and other civil rights and privacy experts. [16] Notably, however, is the change to names on the platform for Oregon users. Instead of a host being able to view the entire name of a potential guest, they will only see the initials of the first name. [17] Once the guest completes the booking, the host will be able to see the full name. [18] This change is only for Oregon users, and the company noted that it was “consistent with the voluntary settlement agreement [they] reached in 2019 with individuals in Oregon.” [19] The update will last for the next years, and perhaps onward. [20] While Airbnb has not addressed whether they will make this change to the platform in other states, it will be an area to watch in the future as discrimination in tech comes to the forefront of privacy issues. It will also be interesting to see the ways in which Airbnb’s partnership with the Color of Change will affect its policies in the future. As the trailblazer of the online home-sharing universe, Airbnb has the resources and leadership skills necessary to make changes that would affect the industry as a whole. The only question that remains, is whether they will use those resources to do so. Source: Fordham Intellectual Property, Media &#038; Entertainment Law Journal View original source article here.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vrbo nightmare: Host finds fentanyl, feces, fake IDs in home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2022 22:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[DENVER (KDVR ) — A Denver woman who rented her home through Vrbo is living out a nightmare. The host, who asked that her name and face not be revealed, was renting her place on Vrbo for the very first time. Her listing photos advertised a pristine, modern home, and a group of guests soon booked it for eight nights. But only one day into their stay, she received 56 notifications from her Ring camera, which captured the guests breaking a number of rules in her non-smoking house. Taking Vrbo&#8217;s advice, the host said she gave the guests four hours to pack up and get out. After receiving a notification, they checked out. But she walked in and heard people still in her home, and she saw some things she will never forget. &#8220;I go in and I was shaking by what I saw,&#8221; the host said. &#8220;I was thinking they&#8217;re just smoking cigarettes, and there&#8217;s dog poop. I walk in, and they’ve rearranged my living room to have this elaborate computer setup with scanners and fake IDs everywhere. There&#8217;s plates of cocaine, there&#8217;s different kinds of pipes to smoke things, blue circle pills everywhere.&#8221; Babysitter who raped girl while mom went to store sentenced Police showed up a few hours later. They took one of the men into custody, after learning he had a warrant out for his arrest. He also had a gun. The others were allowed to leave, the woman said. &#8220;They asked if I wanted to press charges,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I said yes, for trespassing, and then [police] came back and said since I was renting, this is actually a civil matter and I can&#8217;t press charges. I just don&#8217;t understand the law enough to understand why this is all falling under civil [when there&#8217;s] someone with a warrant and guns and drugs, and then you just let them all go.&#8221; Police removed the cocaine from her residence. But she said they came back the next day, when she called asking them to remove some fentanyl that had also been left behind. Police told her to get rid of the other belongings the group had left behind, but she said one guest keeps messaging her for their stuff. The guest is also disputing the more-than-$1,900 booking cost. The host said she&#8217;s now out that money, plus an additional $2,000 in cleaning costs to remove the drugs and dirt from her brand-new place. She claimed Vrbo is giving her the runaround, too. After everything that transpired, the woman is now scarred and scared to host again, she said. Former pastor pleads guilty to running over, stabbing estranged wife to death with machete: DA When questioned, Vrbo said it was investigating the incident. They said they&#8217;re hopeful that everything can be resolved. Denver Police, meanwhile, said they are looking into specific details of the case. They did acknowledge, however, that officers generally have a responsibility to collect any illegal items or items of personal property and to log these items in the Denver Police Department to be destroyed or released to the rightful owner.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Local Governments Urging Regulations On Short-Term #Rentals!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) has voiced its concern regarding short-term rentals and their impacts on local housing supply in communities across the province. UBCM officials said it has made 13 requests to the provincial government to consider establishing a regulatory framework for the short-term accommodation industry similar to those for the ride-hailing industries.   “The short-term rental accommodation industry has grown exponentially over the last decade and it’s largely unregulated. One of the consequences of that growth is that it has limited the supply of long-term rental homes,” said Jack Crompton, Mayor of Whistler and co-chair of the Joint UBCM – Province Advisory Group on Short-Term Rentals. “The lack of regulation means that it’s a pretty lucrative choice and one that drives us away from housing residents in communities, which is really important in British Columbia at this time.”   Currently, individual municipalities can regulate short-term rentals, but accurate and complete data needed to understand exactly what is happening with short-term rentals in the community are not readily available to local governments.   “Our hope is that this regulation will tamper the enthusiasm to convert long-term rental homes into short-term rentals,” said Crompton. “The goal is not to drive short-term rentals out of the province, but it is to come up with a rational solution so that a community’s needs can be addressed and promoted.”   Specific regulations the UBCM is asking from the provincial government include the following:   Province-wide regulatory framework for platform accountability and information validation for online accommodation platforms and short-term rental hosts. Requirements for all online accommodation platforms to make data available through a provincial interface, which will be made available to local governments. Requirements for all online accommodation platforms to publish business license or permit information with local governments directly on the platform to prevent false information in listings. Tax collection for PST and Municipal and Regional District Tax (MRDT) at the point of booking. Possible changes to the MRDT to make it consistent across the province and expand the use of tax revenue to offset impacts to housing and neighborhoods.   “These requests for action would significantly reduce the regulatory burden for local governments while continuing to offer flexibility to balance regulation with the benefits of having short-term rentals available,” said Crompton. “The report also acknowledges that there is a need for improved data on short term rentals in B.C. communities to support effective regulation and the need for a provincial interface that is available to local governments.”   Written By Ryley McCormack &#124; View Original Article On My East Kootenay Now]]></description>
		
		
		
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