Sharing Economy
A new laundry service platform is looking to grow its presence in Texas, leveraging underutilized washers and dryers to enter the D-FW laundering market. NoScrubs is an app-based, on-demand laundry service that relies on gig workers to pick up, clean, and return customers’ clothes and linens within just a few hours. The company got its…
Borrowing tools is a tradition as old as time — maybe even the first person chiseling out a wheel had to wander over to the neighboring cave to borrow a bigger blade. Several cities around North Texas are giving that age-old habit a modern upgrade with a free tool-sharing program that lends everything from lawnmowers…
The economy may be shrinking, and while the grass may not always be greener on the other side, it still grows in residential neighborhoods. And if you can’t afford a lawn service or your own lawnmower, tall grass can easily put a dent in your budget if yu rack up a lot of code violations.…
Recently I moderated a panel on Vacation Homes for NAREE in New Orleans, like a little over a week ago. One of my panelists was Bill Furlong of HomeAway, the nine year old Austin-based “alternative accommodation” site that runs VRBO.com and VacationRentals.com. As I may have told you, the vacation home rental industry is huge…
