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Airbnb Hosts Are Filing Damage Claims Through the Platform’s Own Protection Program at a Record Pace, and Hosts Say Actually Getting Paid Is Now Taking Months Longer Than It Ever Used To
Airbnb’s own host protection program, AirCover, was built to reassure property owners that damage from a careless guest would not come entirely out of their own pocket. Hosts are now […]
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Homeowners Associations Across the Country Are Quietly Banning Airbnb Rentals Inside Their Own Communities Overnight, and Investor Owners Say They Are Losing Income Before They Can Even React
Cities have spent years passing ordinances to restrict short-term rentals. Increasingly, homeowners associations are not waiting on city hall at all — they are writing their own outright bans on […]
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Neighbors Were Floored to Discover Their Fence Had Been Sitting Three Feet Onto the Other Family’s Property for Decades, and a Brand New Survey Has Forced Both Sides Into Court
A fence that has stood in the same spot for decades feels like a settled fact of a property. A new survey can undo that assumption in a single afternoon, […]
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Parents Who Cosigned Their Adult Child’s Apartment Lease Are Horrified to Discover They Are Still Legally on the Hook Long After Their Kid Has Already Packed up and Moved out
Cosigning a lease for an adult child feels like a temporary favor: help them qualify for an apartment now, step back once they are established. Housing attorneys say that assumption […]
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Sellers Who Simply Refuse to Move out After Closing Are Becoming an Absolute Nightmare for Buyers, and Evicting the Previous Owner From a House You Legally Own Can Drag on for Months
Closing on a home is supposed to be the moment the keys change hands. For a growing number of buyers, it is instead the start of a new negotiation: getting […]
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Fully Restored Eighteen Ninety One Lighthouse Just Hit the Market as a Livable Home, and Whoever Buys It Will Technically Own a Working Piece of Active Coast Guard Navigation History
A fully restored, fully livable lighthouse built in 1891 is heading to a new owner, and whoever submits the winning offer will inherit something almost no other home listing can […]
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Vrbo Guest Paid Seven Thousand Dollars Upfront for a Twenty Two Person Family Reunion, and the Host Canceled Two Months Later With an Excuse That Made No Sense at All
Susan Chudd spent months planning a 22-person family reunion at a Kentucky property called the “Kentucky Dream Estate,” booked through Vrbo and paid for in full — more than $7,000 […]
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Federal Prosecutors Say a Short Term Rental Duo Turned Double Booking Into an $8.5 Million Auction Scheme, and Displaced Guests Were Sometimes Bumped to Worse Properties Without Warning
Federal prosecutors say two men ran a short-term rental scheme that turned double booking from an accident into a business model, allegedly pocketing more than $8.5 million by listing the […]
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Homeowners Are Suing Their Own HOAs After Being Flatly Denied Permission to Install Solar Panels on Their Own Roofs, and State Solar Rights Laws Are Turning the Fights Sharply in Their Favor
Homeowners associations have long had a reputation for rejecting solar panel installations on aesthetic grounds, arguing rooftop panels clash with a community’s uniform look. Increasingly, those rejections are ending up […]
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Landlords in Rent Controlled Cities Are Exploiting Renovation Permits to Quietly Push out Longtime Tenants, and Housing Advocates Say the Loophole Is Spiraling out of Control
Rent control laws are supposed to stop landlords from pushing out longtime tenants to reset rents at market rate. In cities with the strongest tenant protections, some landlords have found […]