The quiet neighbourhood of Meadowvale has been living with a noisy invader — a wild and hopping Airbnb party house.

Let’s set the scene: you’ve booked a room with your partner on Airbnb. It’s a penthouse with a hot tub and you’re super excited. You’ve had a long day, you’re exhausted, in need of a shower and turn up to the booking only to find out the owner is SHOOTING A PORNO IN THE APARTMENT. Wait, what?

When Yuanming He rented out his townhome on Airbnb two weeks ago, the Old Dominion University student who booked it promised there would be no parties and no more than three people on site.

A vacation rental project in Lincoln Park is raising questions about background checks in the age of the shared economy.

Residents have exposed a situation involving two houses, suspected to be located in the public housing complex Edifício Do Lago, being advertised on the Airbnb website, according to a recent report by Macao Daily News (Ou Mun Yat Po).

It’s a beautiful spring evening, you’ve just finished a BBQ dinner in the back yard, and you’re settling in with a glass of wine to enjoy a bit of quiet at the end of a long day.
Suddenly, and for the third time this week, a cacophony of car doors slamming, and excited hoots erupts as the latest Airbnb renters of your absentee-neighbor/owner’s home arrive for yet another night of non-stop partying. You need to go to the grocery store, but as you exit your garage you find that the renters have blocked your drive.

Last fall in San Francisco, Airbnb resoundingly defeated Proposition F at the ballot box, killing a measure that would have imposed harsher restrictions on the short-term home rental service. But an Airbnb ally lost a critical city Board of Supervisors race, which means that Airbnb currently faces a tougher fight in City Hall.

Last Christmas, my husband, Chris, and I visited Cuba for 10 days with our five-year-old daughter, Madelaine. Chris has a great-aunt in Havana who was celebrating her 89th birthday—we wanted our daughter to meet her Tia Rosie. We decided to list our house on Airbnb.

The city of Toronto is taking the owner of a short-term house rental to court, charged with violating a zoning bylaw.

Willowdale’s Glenelia Ave. used to be so quiet residents once called it “the street that time forgot.” Those days are over.