SF News Just How Many Apartments In SF Are Being Used As Full-Time Airbnb Rentals? A few weeks back the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office, at the behest of Supervisor David Campos, put out a report in which they attempted to estimate how many "commercial users"
Arts & Entertainment Video: Snoop Through Your Host's Stuff With 'Airbnb Express' Early in the days of Airbnb, when we still called the practice apartment-sharing without using exaggerated air quotes or eye rolls, a pal of mine was Airbnbing her Tenderloin apartment to tourists every
SF News Inside 'InnCubator': Highly Suspicious Hostels For Techies On HBO's Silicon Valley, T. J. Miller plays Erlich Bachmann, a schlubby entrepreneur with delusions of grandeur and a home on the Peninsula he's renting to young techies and calling an "incubator." Of
SF News South Bay Woman Stuck With Two Airbnb Squatters Who Refuse To Leave A Watsonville woman who was renting her back master bedroom to a couple on Airbnb made the grave mistake of accepting rent in cash after the Airbnb transaction ended. Then it seems she
SF News Study: Airbnb 'Commercial Hosts' Definitely Keeping Long-Term Rental Units Off the Market A lot gets said about Airbnb in relation to average moms and pops and everygal/guys who are renting rooms to tourists for a little extra cash, or renting their apartments while they're
SF News Planning Department Won't Force Airbnb To Share Records Airbnb has no plans to hand over records necessary to enforce regulations to the Planning Department, and now the Planning Department has voted four to three that it isn't going to try to
SF News Airbnb Violations Now Being Used More Often Than The Ellis Act In Evicting SF Tenants Many San Francisco renters, especially those living in rent-controlled units, have likely had to sign leases, or revised leases, with their landlords in recent years that specifically prohibit short-term rental of the unit
SF News Airbnb Debuts New PR Campaign With Same Messiah Complex According to a newly launched, pretty straightforward public relations site called airbnbsf.com Airbnb is "under attack" from "bureaucrats." With a series of carefully selected testimonials, one from each district, photogenic locals explain
SF News Day Around The Bay: Port-a-Potty Lands In Lake Merritt This portable toilet appears to have fallen, or was tossed, into the cleanly waters of Oakland's Lake Merritt over the weekend. [JesseBudlong/Twitter] Season of the Witch author David Talbot contemplated running against
SF News Rent Your Dungeon, Cage, Or Adult Playroom on 'KinkBNB' It's 2015, and kink is on the table. Or on the floor, in the basement, or hanging from the ceiling, as the case may be. And now San Francisco, innovation capital of the
SF News Airbnb Law Impossible To Enforce, Says Agency Tasked With Enforcement Less than two months after the controversial Airbnb-legalization ordinance took effect, the city agency that has been dealing with the registration nightmare of the city's many thousands of Airbnb hosts, the Planning Department,
SF News Rich Guy Claims Uber And Airbnb Will Make Us Rich, Too Marc Andreessen, the cofounder and partner of Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, has an estimated net worth of $600 million bucks. Despite the busy schedule he must have managing all that money
SF News Airbnb Has Paid Those Back Taxes To SF 'In Full' $25 million. That's the widely quoted figure that Airbnb owed the city in back hotel taxes and penalties, and it's perhaps the sum they've just paid San Francisco. Though the Chronicle reports that
SF News Airbnb CEO Apologizes For Gandhi Comparison Tweet Critics of Silicon Valley take particular pleasure in delusional analogies from tech companies and their backers, and last week provided plenty of fodder. First, Twitter was ablaze with a Uber-as-Rosa Parks comparison, for
SF News Get Ready To Register Your Airbnb And Follow All The New Rules Starting Next Month Renting out a room on Airbnb ain't what it used to be. In fact, now you have to do a little clearance first, thanks to our first-of-its-kind law passed last year by the
SF News Airbnb Hands Out $1 Million, $10 At A Time, For Random Acts Of Kindness By way of a New Year's PR boost, Airbnb has given out $10 each (or the equivalent in foreign currency) to 100,000 of its loyal users for use in "helping to rid
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter CFO's DM Fail Twitter CFO means to DM, tweets instead: "I think we should buy them." Remember, always screenshot the tweet! [Buzzfeed] Google removed a homophobic/gay killing game called “Ass Hunter” from the Android store.
SF News Regarding How New York, And Dianne Feinstein, Openly Hate Airbnb Maybe you've heard, but New York City is the next frontier Airbnb is hoping to conquer, and so far that effort is not looking nearly as easy as the company's San Francisco conquest
SF News Airbnb Regulation Passes; Supervisors Let Company Off The Hook For Back Taxes At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, the much discussed and fairly controversial Airbnb legitimacy law passed by a vote of 7 to 4, along with some new amendments. One amendment that failed to
SF News Finally! Airbnb Will Start Collecting Taxes In S.F. Next Month After initially agreeing this summer to start collecting the same 14 percent occupancy tax as San Francisco hotels, which we told you about back in April, Airbnb says it will finally make good
SF News Airbnb Squatters Leave Palm Springs Condo In Dead Of Night The story of the two (possibly Russian) brothers, Maksym and Denys Pashanin, who've been squatting in one San Francisco woman's Palm Springs condo since late May has finally come to a close and
SF News Airbnb Squatters Are Seasoned Scam Artists, Squatted In S.F. Before As it turns out, (possibly) Russian brothers Maksym and Denys Pashanin, now forever known as the Airbnb Squatters, had eviction papers served to them in a San Francisco SRO way back in 2009.
SF News Protestors Launch Sticker Campaign To Tag Apartments Illegally Flipped Into Airbnb Rentals Today at noon, the San Francisco Tenants Union (SFTU) will protest what they claim is “thousands of rent controlled apartments” that have been illegally converted to short-term rentals on sites like Airbnb. Starting
SF News Airbnb Squatter ID'd, Says He 'Would Squat Again' The two Russian brothers who are accused of squatting in one woman's Airbnb condo in Palm Springs have been identified publicly as Maksym and Denys Pashanin. Maksym Pashanin is the person who rented
SF News Airbnb Host Seeks Help In Evicting Squatter From Palm Springs Home Well, this is awful. San Francisco resident Cory Tschogl, 39, decided to purchase a condo in Palm Springs after being priced out of the SF market, and she's been helping to pay the
