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Hotel Chains Are Quietly Winning Back Travelers Who Swore off Vacation Rentals After Years of Surprise Cleaning Fees and Keyless Check Ins Gone Wrong at the Worst Possible Moment
Sixty-two percent of American travelers now say they prefer a hotel over a short-term rental like Airbnb or Vrbo for holiday travel, according to a new survey — a number […]
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Vrbo Has Rolled Out New Guest Protections and Host Reputation Scores After Years of Complaints About Listings That Looked Nothing Like Their Photos Once Guests Arrived
Vrbo has spent the past several years quietly rebuilding the rulebook for its hosts, after a long stretch of traveler complaints about listings that bore little resemblance to their photos, […]
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Court Has Ruled That HOAs Have No Legal Duty to Referee Fights Between Neighbors, and the Decision Could Reshape How Thousands of Communities Handle Property Disputes
An appeals court has ruled that homeowners associations have no legal duty to step in and prevent fights between neighbors, a decision that could reshape how liability gets assigned the […]
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New Research Maps Out Exactly Where Americans Are Relocating This Year as Affordability Keeps Pushing Families Out of the Cities They Love
Affordability Now Outranks Jobs as the Reason Families Move New data tracking long-distance moves between January 2025 and March 2026 shows 58 percent of people who relocated cited affordability as […]
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A Boca Raton Homeowner Kept Chickens for a Decade Without Complaint, Then His HOA Gave Him 14 Days to Tear Down the Coop or Pay $100 a Day
For roughly a decade, a family in the gated Ashley Park community of Boca Raton kept a small flock of chickens in their backyard without a single complaint from the […]
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HOA Complaint Filings Have Climbed Sharply Over the Past Three Years According to State Consumer Protection Records, and Failure to Enforce Covenants Is Now the Single Biggest Category
Homeowners association complaints have climbed sharply over the past several years, according to newly released state consumer protection data, with disputes over unenforced covenants and bylaws now topping the list […]
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Vacation Destinations Keep Voting to Tighten Their Short Term Rental Rules One City at a Time, and Hosts Say New Permit Caps Could Wipe Out Hundreds of Active Listings
South Lake Tahoe, California has adopted a hard cap of 900 vacation home rental permits in residential zones, a limit that took effect in April and is one of the […]
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Corporate Landlords Now Own One in Every Four Single Family Rentals in Several Major Metros, and Tenants Say Getting a Human on the Phone Has Become Nearly Impossible
In metro Atlanta, roughly one in every four single-family rental homes is now owned by an institutional investor rather than an individual landlord. That’s not a rough estimate — it’s […]
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Renters Are Now Getting Hit With Application Fees, Amenity Fees and Convenience Fees That Can Add Hundreds of Dollars to a Lease Before a Single Box Gets Unpacked
The rent on the listing said $1,800. By the time a renter actually gets keys, that number rarely tells the whole story. A federal rule targeting rental housing fees, published […]
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Zillow Listing Photo Showing a Mysterious Streak of White Powder Scattered Across a Kitchen Counter Has Turned an Otherwise Ordinary Home Sale Into an Internet Detective Story
A five-bedroom house in Oak Park, Michigan, listed for $165,000 pulled in roughly 29,000 views in a single day — not because of its square footage or its finishes, but […]