March 10, 2017
The Austin Code Department has started its annual tradition of stepped-up monitoring and enforcement of regulations covering short-term rental businesses, the official policy name for homeowners who rent out extra rooms to tourists visiting for the South by Southwest festival. The lucrative practice, which is aided by websites such as Airbnb and the Austin-based HomeAway, will be policed by a seven-member STR Enforcement Team whose work began yesterday, March 9, and will continue through the festival’s conclusion on March 19…
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