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Business is Brisk for Airbnb Superhost Lisa Cobb

By Elaine Raffel / June 20, 2021 /

Lisa’s impressive CV includes model, photography agent, film producer, med spa owner, and most recently, Airbnb Superhost.

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North Dallas Airbnb Gets Totally Trashed After a Party Ends Early, Gunshots Fired

By Candy Evans / June 19, 2021 /

An Airbnb host’s worst nightmare happened to a home in North Dallas last weekend: DTX-TV reported and posted two videos of the wild parties in a North Dallas neighborhood. The property is located at 15816 Spring Creek Road in Richardson Heights Estates, which is off Coit Road near Arapaho. The party-goers trashed the house. Video…

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Swimply: Renting Willing Strangers’ Pools For Profit

By Jon Anderson / June 10, 2021 /

The “sharing economy” is a quaint admission that, unlike prior generations, you can’t afford to own things because wages have not kept pace with corporate profit. Share your car with Lyft, share your home with Airbnb, share your clothes with The Real Real, and now share your backyard pool with Swimply. Yes, that’s right, homeowners…

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Hotel And Occupancy Taxes: What Short-Term Rentals Bring to The Table

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / April 12, 2021 /

By Lisa SieversSpecial Contributor In the discussion regarding short-term rental regulation in the City of Dallas, one important point has not been well addressed — Hotel and Occupancy Tax (HOT).  What are HOT taxes and why should we care about them? HOT taxes are collected to directly promote tourism and the convention/hotel industry. In Dallas,…

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Short-Term Rental Ordinance Would Harm Small Businesses, Put End to Dallas’ Neighborhood Ambassadors

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / April 2, 2021 /

By Jeff Veazey Party houses and property rights — between the people who are for a reasonable short-term rental ordinance and the people who want to ban everything they disagree with, there are people who are impacted economically.  A local property manager for a small HOA, Blaise Genco, has no short-term rental property of his…

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