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 Treasurer Gives Uber And Lyft Drivers Longer To Obtain Business Licenses, Forgives Fines Drivers for transportation network companies like Lyft and Uber who were told, depending on whom you ask, somewhat abruptly in April that they would need to obtain business licenses, are being granted two
SF News Like It Did For Uber Drivers, Treasurer's Office Orders Airbnb Hosts To Get Business Licenses Earlier this month, roughly 37,000 drivers for Uber and Lyft were mailed letters from San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros indicating that, as contractors, they must apply for business licenses to operate
SF News Business Licenses For Some SF Uber And Lyft Drivers Cost Hundreds More Than Expected Many of the 37,000 or so San Francisco Uber and Lyft drivers who learned last week that they were required to have a business license to ply their trade in the city
SF News S.F Mulls Taxing Things Like Air BnB, 'Cottage Industries' Late last week we heard that City Treasurer Jose Cisneros had heeded the call of hotel unions and the Tenants Union to impose the city's 14% hotel tax on AirBnB rentals. Now we're
SF News Sydney Romp: Bevan Dufty Explains It All Yesterday we mentioned the delightful work trip/vacation San Francisco supervisor Bevan Dufty and city treasurer Jose Cisneros took to Australia for Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras. Trannyshack founder Heklina was there, too. And
SF News Cisneros and Dufty Party With Gay/Civic Pride In Australia Somehow we overlooked this last week, but local porn-ish blog, the Sword, captured images of San Francisco's openly bent politicos Supervisor/personality Bevan Dufty and city treasurer Jose Cisneros kicking it together at
