When the Airbnb host was contacted and informed of the situation, they were apologetic but offered only a partial refund.

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The treasurer said Oklahoma, through TSET, will place resolutions before investors at those companies’ annual shareholder meetings ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 ...

For tax collectors, San Francisco is something of a model. The City is atypical in that it already requires short-term-rental ...

Depending on the fine print, Vrbo giving vacation rental property managers more flexibility in how they run their businesses ...

The city of Cocoa Beach passed a resolution to increase fees and fines for short-term rentals. The new registration fee and the renewal fee jumped by more than 300 percent. The city's vacation rental ...

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In 2007, a cash-strapped Brian Chesky came up with a shrewd way to pay his $1,200 San Francisco apartment rent ... Things moved quickly from there, in May 2011 Airbnb acquired Accoleo, a German clone ...

The fund would compensate the US for its assistance provided to the war-torn nation since the start of Russia’s invasion. Ukraine is arguing the actual amount is about five times lower at more ...

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have dropped a surprise statement ahead of a major event in California this weekend. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Archewell Foundation, which they founded in 2020 ...