More than 200 Indio households have received rental assistance out of Indio’s partnership with Coachella Valley nonprofit Lift to Rise. In March 2021, Indio’s City Council authorized $645,754 in Community Development Block Grant-Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) funding to Lift to Rise, to serve some of the nearly 350 Indio households on the waitlist for the United Lift […]
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Airbnb announced Monday that its initiative aimed at cracking down on unauthorized parties in San Diego kept more than 6,000 “potentially risky reservation attempts” from occurring locally over the past year. The company says its nationwide policy launched last year restricts guests under the age of 25 from booking entire house listings in their local […]
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Airbnb announced Monday it is blocking people from booking one-night reservations for houses in Los Angeles and throughout the U.S. during the Fourth of July weekend in an effort to stop people from throwing unauthorized parties. On Aug. 20, 2020, Airbnb enacted a ban on all gatherings of more than 16 people at its listings […]
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A group of La Quinta residents, referred to as “Neighbors for Neighborhoods,” took to City Hall Tuesday to request an extension on the City’s Short Term Rental moratorium which currently goes through February 2, 2021. To get their plea across the group submitted a “vision.’ TO VIEW THE GROUPS PAGE CLICK HERE “The vision proposes […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6197069422001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”rJpklujDf” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” playsinline=”” picture_in_picture=”” max_width=”640px” mute=”” width=”100%” height=”100%” ] Cathedral City’s council members voted unanimously to phase out short term rentals, but one group says the fight isn’t over. “It was never over for us, it was, what is our next plan of attack. These are our homes, these […]
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You cannot stop Lizzo’s shine. The singer was just trying to have some fun in the sun with her girls when one property manager, apparently, decided to try and throw some shade. “This is for the man that kicked me out of my 7-day rental 3 days early yesterday. This is for mocking the way that I […]
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We’ve all heard nightmare stories about affordable housing. “Somebody’s teacher had to live in an RV park in order to teach in that area because it was just so expensive to live around there,” says Tom Crusse, who is visiting the desert from the East Coast. But we found a story close to home, in […]
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LA QUINTA – Luxe Vacation Homes was running a rental “Ponzi scheme” to pay off future rentals with current rentals. “Imagine that, 50 houses, 45-thousand dollars for three weeks,” Quartez Wynn, a rental house manager, said. Luxe Vacation Homes received fifty percent of every transaction they made, up front. “That’s a lot of money,” Wynn […]
