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Business
About 6,500 Maryland property owners that rented their property on Airbnb made an average of about $5,00, according to the company.
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Op-ed
As the homicides mount in Baltimore, the City Council remained focused on the important issues in 2018, including bans on: selling cats and dogs at pet stores, sugary drinks with kids meals and polystyrene foam containers. Imagine the violence if we hadn’t had such bold leadership.
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Politics
A majority of the Baltimore City Council voted Monday to pass a set of strict rules on renting out property on Airbnb and other online platforms, but the bill didn’t receive enough votes to overcome a procedural hurdle. The council will take it up again at its next meeting on Thursday.
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Politics
The Baltimore City Council is scheduled to a hold a final vote Monday on a bill that would impose tight new rules on Airbnb in the city, only allowing people to rent out their own homes on the site.
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Readers Respond
Baltimore must put some limits on Airbnb and similar rentals or cause harm to working families.
Baltimore City
The Baltimore City Council’s taxation, finance and economic development committee voted Thursday on amendments that represent some wins and losses for both sides of the debate over Airbnb-style rentals. Councilman Eric Costello and Council President Bernard C. “Jack" Young introduced the bill.
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Editorial
Home-sharing is great - but it shouldn't mean penalizing innkeepers who play by the rules.
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Baltimore City
Dozens of people who host guests in Airbnb-style properties urged the Baltimore City Council Thursday to amend a bill that would impose new regulations and taxes on short-term rentals.
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Baltimore City
The Baltimore City Council’s Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee will hold a hearing Thursday on the bill.
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Howard County
Hudson Kennedy, a freshman at River Hill High School, co-authored a paper that was published recently in a journal.
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Op-ed
Whether at a Starbucks or a Waffle House, whether in an upscale department store or a fitness club, whether sitting in a public park or strolling on a public street admiring beautiful houses, whether playing golf at a country club or using an Airbnb on vacation, black people are just trying to be.
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Readers Respond
Proposal to tax and regulate Airbnb more like hotels seems reasonable.
Readers Respond
City Council's plan to regulate and tax Airbnb rentals is short-sighted mistake.
Politics
The Baltimore City Council is set to take up a bill imposing strict rules on short term rentals made through Airbnb and other sites, sharply limiting people's ability to rent out anything other than their home.
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Readers Respond
City Council President's proposed restrictions on Airbnb and similar companies would be disastrous for Baltimore redevelopment.
Beaches
Rehoboth Beach, Del., has voted to double its tax on residential rentals.
Jobs
Former Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has joined an Airbnb advisory board as the accommodation rental company continues to battle with the hotel industry over how it ought to be regulated.
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Baltimore City
The Baltimore City Council was all set to consider sweeping new regulations on online rental sites like Airbnb next week. That plan changed abruptly late Friday.
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Business
Several venture capital organizations invested $4.8 million into Snag-A-Slip, the Baltimore-based online boat slip rental firm announced Wednesday.
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Baltimore City
Put on a set of safety goggles if you visit The Foundery, a makerspace in South Baltimore. You might need some earplugs, too.
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Baltimore City Paper
In 2011, the great writer John Jeremiah Sullivan wrote an essay for the New York Times Magazine about, among other things, sneaking away with his old buddy to
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Mobile apps such as car rental network Turo are making it easy, efficient and secure to earn extra income by letting people borrow cars and RVs, stay or eat meals in their homes, or hire themselves out to run errands or help with household chores.
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Business
Mobile apps such as car rental network Turo are making it easy, efficient and secure to earn extra income by letting people borrow cars and RVs, stay or eat meals in their homes, or hire themselves out to run errands or help with household chores.
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Politics
Senators on a key committee made it clear Friday that they're not likely to approve legislation that would regulate and tax short-term rental properties that are advertised online.
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Baltimore County officials on Tuesday withdrew legislation that would have made online vacation rentals pay the local hotel tax.
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Readers Respond
Bed and breakfasts put at unfair disadvantage when Airbnb taxes go uncollected
Real Estate
Airbnb, a growing short-term rental website, said Monday that hosts in Maryland whose properties are booked through the platform made about $25.3 million in 2016.
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Business
To hoteliers pushing Annapolis lawmakers last week to tax and regulate home and room rentals, the target was clear: Airbnb, a multi-billion dollar corporation, whose growth they believe has been unfairly helped by its ability to operate outside the law.
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Politics
Traditional hotels are making a push to require people who rent out their homes to guests to pay the same taxes and follow many of the same regulations that they do.
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Catonsville
The app economy, with mobile applications like Uber and OpenTable pointing users to local businesses and contractors, has had both a positive and negative effect on local businesses.
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Business
Stays in Baltimore booked through Airbnb would be subject to the city's hefty 9.5 percent hotel tax under legislation the City Council will take up Tuesday.
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Baltimore Insider
This week: #YeezySeason4 deemed "a celebration of black beauty, Airbnb addresses discrimination and Obamas' covers give life goals.
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Home
Airbnb, an online booking site for home rentals, was still in its infancy in 2008, when Ed Bendetti splurged on a second property in Fells Point in 2008, drawn to the fun of a renovation project.
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Home
The vacation rental site Airbnb boasts more than 2 million worldwide listings ranging from a Scottish castle to a treehouse in the jungles of India. But you don¿t need a passport or a plane ticket to enjoy a getaway in a unique home. Local homeowners are offering up stunning spaces that will have you spending your ¿staycation¿ delighting in the design.
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