Etsy, eBay and Airbnb charge a commission for each transaction that occurs on their platforms.These websites sell nothing and receive a commission from the sale. One of the ‘easiest’ business models because they don’t need to create or deliver anything; they just need to attract customers...
Airbnb cites Northern Wisconsin, especially areas around Lake Superior and Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest, as one of their most popular summertime booking regions. Makes sense: the beautiful, rugged region is accessible from major cities like Minneapolis and Milwaukee. Lounge in this family-...
The biggest indoor waterpark in New York, located in the Hudson Valley, has to delay its planned reopening. Over the weekend, The Kartrite Resort
It’s not just gentrifying neighborhoods in big cities where these problems exist. More and more, housing affordability is a challenge in rural and suburban areas, and for people all over the income spectrum. Poor tenants have it worst: As the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) note...
This breakneck rate of expansion, in contiguous land, “would be difficult to do in a lot of other metropolitan areas,” Schoettler said. Amazon’s expansion has led, in the short time since the end of the recession, to a “record level of private investment,” as well as significan...
Lately, Sam andI have been staying in AirBnBswhere we have the whole space to ourselves, so it was nice having a host for a change and to hear about life in this little corner of Scotland. Also, that night I had one of the best sleeps of my life. I think it was the combination...