A Cape Cod family is pushing for mandatory inspections of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors after a devastating tragedy at ...

Scope out the general area where you’re staying as well by walking around and looking at the map on your phone. “You should be aware of local emergency resources ― police station, fire station, ...

“There are also portable safes you can travel with,” Coffey said. “They’re usually cloth with wire mesh sandwiched between ...

The fees for registering a property would have to be drastically increased to cover inspection costs. And while short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo offer safety guidelines for ...

When Airbnb arrived in Portland ... Miller: I want to turn to the safety question, because you’ve noted that safety inspections are basically nonexistent. What are those inspections supposed ...

Shortly after a young boy was crushed to death by an elevator inside a vacation home in North Carolina last month, federal regulators turned to vacation rental companies for help. They asked firms ...

Airbnb's self-description ... Obviously, jumping through the hoops of permits and safety inspections is costly and prohibitive for individual owners. Big corporate bureaucracies are much better ...

But Airbnb says it got something in return: an end to city safety inspections of homes as a condition for a permit. Airbnb spokeswoman Laura Rillos says the company will begin the application ...

says the essential structure of the Airbnb model makes it difficult to require the same sort of safety inspections that a hotel or licensed bed and breakfast gets, since that might make it cost ...

Stone's post points out safety risks that can occur when millions of consumers embrace a platform, like Airbnb, that is not liable for host conduct or property inspections. (Hosts are "strongly ...

Existing bed-and-breakfast establishments, which have long operated under city rules, were angry that Airbnb rentals didn't have to pay hotel taxes or undergo fire and safety inspections.

The Airbnb Inc. logo and application are ... Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability staff recommended the inspections in response to safety concerns, a change from its initial proposal.