SF News SF Airbnb Host Robbed Of Life Savings Kept In Home Safe A San Francisco yoga instructor and Airbnb host is receiving an outpouring of community support after a home burglary resulted in the loss of her life savings. Janet Stone, a 48-year-old single mother,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Airbnb Launches Trips, Offering In-Depth Travel Guides And Experiences Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Airbnb today announced the launch of Trips, one of
SF News SF Supes Approve 60-Day Cap On Rentals From Currently Unregistered Airbnb Hosts A week after a judge's ruling suggested that Airbnb's lawsuit against SF was doomed, and just days after the company announced that they might follow San Francisco's rules after all, things have gotten
SF News Airbnb Does About-Face, Says It Will Crack Down On Scofflaw Hosts In SF Following a preliminary ruling by a federal judge last week suggesting that the court will hold Airbnb responsible for conducting transactions with hosts who are violating San Francisco law, the short-term rental company
SF News Airbnb Dealt Blow By Federal Judge In Their Challenge To SF Crackdown On Illegal Rentals In the midst of Tuesday's chaos, a news item slipped through pertaining to Airbnb and San Francisco's latest attempt to crack down on scofflaw hosts. A federal judge ruled against a preliminary injunction
SF News You Can Now Rent The Hillsborough 'Flintstone House' On Airbnb Have some extra cash sitting around but no weekend plans? Well then you're in luck, because as the Chronicle reports, you can now book yourself a stay in the famed Hillsborough "Flintstone House"
SF News Airbnb Will Ban Multiple Listings By SF Hosts As Airbnb and the city of San Francisco spar in court — the company sued the city over a law requiring it to verify the hosts on its platform are legal or else face
SF News Judge Grills Airbnb At Hearing Over SF Host Registration Law Airbnb has taken the city of San Francisco to court over a law requiring that the home-rental service verify its hosts are registered with the city or else face steep fines, but if
SF News Sonoma City Council Blocks New Airbnbs Following Housing Concerns Citing familiar-sounding concerns about a diminishing stock of affordable housing, the Sonoma City Council yesterday agreed to place a moratorium on home-sharing services like Airbnb and VRBO in the tourist friendly city. The
SF News City Must Increase Airbnb Registration Fees By 400%, And It Doesn't Even Want To The city's hands are tied: The fee charged to short-term rental hosts, currently $50 for two years, is set to quintuple to $250. That's based on San Francisco's short-term rental legislation, crafted with
SF News Did A Noe Valley Vigilante File Complaints About 30 Airbnbs In One Week? Could a rash of recent complaints against supposedly illegal Airbnb listings made mostly in the Noe Valley area be the work of one vigilante? Socketsite is wondering just that, observing that since the
SF News Airbnb Announces New Plans, Tools, And Rules To Fight Bigoted Hosts Nearly ten months after a Harvard Business School study revealed "widespread discrimination" against guests on the basis of race the short-term rental platform Airbnb, the San Francisco-based company is taking action, saying in
SF News Turn This Nine-Bedroom Dolores Street Home Into An Ersatz Hotel, Says Broker On Craigslist "Dolores Park, Whole Foods... everything's around here," says real estate Broker Bill Harkins as he introduces possible tenants to 283 Dolores Street in a video tour of the space. But what's going on
SF News Man Accused Of Using Airbnb To Scout Mountain View Home Before Burglary A man stands accused of using the home-rental site Airbnb to scout and then burglarize a Mountain View home in a style of crime that police now say is a trend across the
SF News Menlo Park Woman Says Porn-Shooting Airbnb Guest Trashed Her Home Using a service like Airbnb is always a bit of a gamble, both for the homeowner and the renter, and sometimes you get dealt a really bad hand. According to ABC 7, one
SF News Airbnb Again At The Center Of Political Play This Election Year As Supervisors Fast-Track Amendments David Campos has built much of his political career on loud calls to preserve housing stock and combat gentrification, and as he approaches the end of his final term as District 9 Supervisor,
SF News Man-Bunned Thief Allegedly Rents Home Through Airbnb, Steals Host's Stuff Why break into a house if you don't have to? That's, perhaps, what went through the mind of 18-year-old Hayward man Elisel Jesus Navarro, who was arrested Saturday after allegedly renting an East
SF News What Do You Do When Your Airbnb Host Freaks Out On You (In Another Country)? By Chris Roberts It had been quite the grand European tour for Candace Low. In late June, with a six-week jaunt across the continent wrapping up in Portugal, the biologist from San Francisco
SF News Airbnb Hires Former Attorney General Eric Holder To Handle Discrimination Policy In May, Rohan Gilkes wrote a post on Medium about being cancelled on by a racist Airbnb host. His experience served as a focal point for reportedly widespread discrimination practiced by Airbnb hosts,
SF News City Revises 'Airbnb Law' Additions To Avoid Airbnb Suing Them The Board of Supervisors Tuesday moved to revise the language of some new additions to the so-called 'Airbnb Law' that would fine the company $1,000 per day per illegal unit listed on
SF News Airbnb Sues SF Over Supe-Approved Fines For Scofflaw Hosts Well, friends, the gloves appear to be off. Airbnb, the San Francisco-based vacation rental company that spent over eight million dollars to convince city voters to oppose regulations for their industry, took out
SF News Like Airbnb Before It, City Is Coming After Short-Term Rental Site HomeAway The city of San Francisco will be going to court to make sure that homeowners renting units on HomeAway, a short-term rental listing company that also owns Airbnb competitor VRBO, are paying their
SF News Airbnb: SF Should Remove Business Registration Requirement For Hosts As it did for Uber and Lyft drivers, San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros has instructed Airbnb hosts that they're responsible for obtaining business licenses.* Cisneros has backed down a bit on the
SF News Airbnb Dealt Massive Blow In SF, As Supes Vote To Fine Company For Turning Blind Eye To Scofflaw Hosts In a move that surprised many, on Tuesday San Francisco's Board of Supervisors approved legislation that hit amateur hotelier platforms in their soft and tender parts — and even SF's Airbnb-friendly Mayor is powerless
SF News SF Hedge Fund Accused Of Selling Fake Pre-IPO Uber Shares, Spending Investors' Money At Strip Clubs A San Francisco hedge fund has been accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars, with its CEO and a colleague spending their ill-gotten gains at strip clubs, casinos, and sporting events.
