Airbnb hosts are happily paying this startup $49 a month to take out the trash

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Can Monkey branded trash bin
Can Monkey was founded in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2018.

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I regretted buying a home and now live out of two suitcases in a $60-a-night Airbnb. I've finally found my freedom, but it's not for everyone.

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Stella Guan, 33, outside the tiny home she's renting in Los Angeles.

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How Airbnb uses AI to weed out people trying to use its rental properties for New Year's parties

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Airbnb said it's using AI technology to crack down on people who want to host wild New Year's Eve parties.

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Airbnb gave a millennial couple $100,000 to build a wacky house in Malaysia. So they did.

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The house is covered in thatch to mimic the outer husk of a coconut.
A floating coconut home in Tanjong Rhu in Langkawi, Malaysia.

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Sam Altman reportedly returned to OpenAI with the help of his tech exec friends, interim CEO Emmett Shear and Airbnb's Brian Chesky

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Airbnb's Brian Chesky, former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Silicon Valley tech execs came together to reinstate Altman as CEO at OpenAI.

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Are Airbnb cleaning fees too high? Tell us what you think.

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A man in a baseball cap leans over a bed with white linens as he folds a white towel. The room has two armchairs and bookshelves.
A cleaner in a short-term rental in Boston in 2018.

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Airbnb hosts are scrambling to cash in on the Paris Summer Olympics — and visitors are struggling to find cheap places to stay

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Paris will host the 2024 Summer Olympics from July 26 to September 8.

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Hoaxers in Greece are telling tourists to evacuate their holiday rentals or pay a $540 fine amid a housing crisis in Athens

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A view of the Parthenon from apartments in Athens.
A view of the Parthenon from apartments in Athens, 2018.

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An Airbnb host's son secretly filmed a guest in the shower, then tried to blackmail her into sending him a sex video: prosecutors

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The 51-year-old man was sentenced to prison time for stalking a former guest in his mother's Airbnb.

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Airbnb hosts both love and loathe Christmas as they try to make as much money as possible: 'It's something we count on for the winter months'

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Christmas tree fully decorated with a log cabin fire on a TV screen
Melinda Johnson, who runs 29 Airbnbs in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, decks their halls for the competitive holiday season.

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