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Book an Extended Stay at These Remote Worker-Friendly Airbnbs

By Mary Cate Long / January 31, 2022 /

Remote work isn’t going anywhere and it’s revolutionizing how people are incorporating travel into their daily lives. According to fascinating new data from Airbnb, one out of every five nights booked in their third quarter were stays of 28 days or longer. Many went for even more ambitious stays with 100,000 Airbnb users booking stays…

Lubbock’s Most Interesting House May Soon Be an Airbnb

By Mary Cate Long / January 20, 2022 /

Lubbock, Texas, was the unlikely scene where one man spent over nearly 35 years creating a house that was intended far more to be sculpture than livable. Robert Bruno built the entire thing himself out of Corten steel.  The house is all organic shape and rusty, red metal, defying gravity on four comparatively thin legs.…

Join The Austin Artists Flocking to Historic Bastrop, Texas

By Mary Cate Long / January 11, 2022 /

As people from across the country (ahem, California) flee sky-high rent and congested traffic by moving to Texas, many of the major cities are finding that the incoming crowds are ironically bringing in the very things the new residents were running from. That is certainly true for Austin, where the booming growth of residents and…

With Airbnbs Unchecked, The City of Dallas Stands to Lose Millions in Tax Revenue From Short-Term Rentals

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / January 4, 2022 /

“We’ve called the police at least two dozen times,” said Dave Norman. “I have a file as thick as my forehead.” Norman lived across the alley from a short-term rental (STR)  “party house” off Meadow Road, and his 12-year-old daughter was continually subjected to loud (and lewd) rap music through her bedroom walls, which bordered…

Airbnb ‘Home Alone’ House Available to Rent, But Case Out the Rules First

By Tommy Cummings / December 7, 2021 /

Wake up your inner Kevin McCallister and be ready to deal with Buzz. Airbnb is running a marketing special for the holidays: the Home Alone house.