KTVU – 2 Investigates: Ex-Owner of troubled hotel fined for illegal Airbnb listings

March 14, 2017
San Francisco’s Office of Short-Term Rentals has fined landlord Alice Tse tens of thousands of dollars as of Monday for illegally renting out properties on the home sharing site Airbnb. 2 Investigates has been reporting issues at Tse’s Empyrean Towers hotel in downtown Oakland for more than two years. In 2014, KTVU cameras first uncovered faulty plumbing, broken walls and window and other deplorable conditions at the hotel on 13th Street. Tse was the then-owner…
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