Your Airbnb guest could be a tenant. Until the law is cleared up, hosts are in limbo
- Written by Bill John Swannie, Lecturer in College of Law and Justice, Victoria University
A Victorian court decision that an Airbnb agreement had the status of a lease has profound implications for guests and hosts.Daniel Krason/Shutterstock
With summer holidays around the corner, many Victorians may be thinking about offering their homes through a home-share platform, such as Airbnb, while they get away themselves. Airbnb’s terms...
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