House rentals, vacation homes and Airbnb in Minnesota

A history lesson and a current-rules reference

Renting a home for payment creates responsibilities for the person offering it and practical questions for the person staying there. This archive treats that activity as a subject of business and housing history. It does not encourage anyone to become a host, favor one platform, or promote a particular property.

The focus is Minnesota, with Airbnb's published home-stay policies discussed as platform examples. Independent owners, conventional landlords, cabin operators, and hosts using other services are also within the subject. Another platform's rules must be researched separately; Airbnb's policies do not automatically apply to a direct rental or another company's reservation.

Before you book or sign a lease: a complete renter checklist

Use these questions for a house, apartment, private room, cabin, or furnished stay. They are practical comparison topics, not a measured ranking of Minnesota search traffic. Online discussions can identify concerns, but they do not establish legal requirements or reliable statewide popularity statistics.

1. Identify the arrangement. Confirm whether it is a residential lease, an entire vacation home, a private room, or a shared home. Identify the owner or authorized manager and the exact property address.
2. Write down the full price. Separate rent or nightly charges, mandatory fees, cleaning, pet charges, utilities, parking, taxes, deposits, and optional services. Ask which charges recur and which can be refunded.
3. Identify every utility payer. Ask who pays for heating fuel, electricity, water, sewer, rubbish collection, internet, and any shared-meter allocation.
4. Understand the heating system. Ask about forced-air heating, hot-water radiators, electric baseboards, heat pumps, or another system; who controls the thermostat; and how to report a failure.
5. Confirm winter access. Identify the assigned parking space, garage availability, driveway access, sidewalk responsibilities, snow removal, ice treatment, and emergency entry arrangements.
6. Read animal rules. Separate ordinary pets from disability-related service or assistance animals. Confirm pet numbers, size or breed restrictions, recurring pet rent, fees, and deposits in writing.
7. Review screening before paying. Obtain the criteria, application charge, screening provider, and written explanation of what happens if the application is denied or never processed.
8. Check the property rules. Confirm guest limits, quiet hours, parking, smoking, visitors, parties, shared spaces, building access, and any condominium or homeowners association restrictions.
9. Read cancellation and change terms. Save the applicable policy, exact deadline, local time zone, refund calculation, payment schedule, and process for extending or shortening the stay.
10. Review privacy and safety. Read the platform's privacy notice, camera disclosures, access arrangements, safety information, and any identity-verification request before sharing documents.
11. Verify local approval. Check the appropriate government records and licensing office for the property, rather than assuming an online listing proves compliance.
12. Save the record. Keep the listing, final price, agreement, accepted rules, receipt, messages, and condition photographs. Record when and how a problem must be reported.

Verification: Minnesota Attorney General: entering a residential rental agreement ; Airbnb Terms of Service .

One house, several different rental arrangements

Research starting points: Minnesota Department of Health lodging classifications ; Minnesota Attorney General landlord–tenant handbook .

Minnesota's vacation-rental roots

These historical examples show that renting temporary accommodation long predates online platforms. They do not establish a single first house rental or a continuous business connection to any present operator.

Historical source: Minnesota Historical Society / MNopedia: Tourism in Minnesota, 1835–1940 . Historic names and places are factual references, not recommendations.

How Airbnb entered the rental story

Sources: Airbnb's corporate timeline ; Saint Paul short-term rental history and requirements ; Airbnb camera policy ; Airbnb cancellation-policy changes . Airbnb's account of its own history is a company source.

Renting a house is an income activity with responsibilities

Offering a house, cabin, or room for payment can involve advertising, pricing, collecting money, cleaning, maintenance, tax records, insurance, and handling complaints. This page includes both an individual renting one property and a company managing many properties.

However, the everyday description “rental business” does not decide a person's legal entity, tax classification, licensing category, or eligibility for an exemption. Those questions depend on the actual arrangement and the applicable rules.

The Internal Revenue Service explains how residential rental income, deductible expenses, and personal use interact. A special rule can apply when a dwelling also used as a home is rented for fewer than 15 days during the tax year. That federal income-tax rule does not itself establish an exemption from local licensing or Minnesota lodging taxes.

Source: Internal Revenue Service Publication 527: Residential Rental Property . Tax-year instructions should be checked for the year being filed.

Four different sources of rental rules

A listing being visible online does not establish that every permit has been issued. A private house rule does not settle whether it is enforceable under applicable law. A platform policy is not a statewide rental statute.

Heating costs and the full utility breakdown

Who pays for each utility?

Ask for a written breakdown of heat, natural gas, electricity, water, sewer, rubbish collection, internet, and any utility administration charge. Determine whether the account is in the tenant's name, included in rent, or billed through the owner. For a shared meter, ask how consumption is allocated and where the billing formula appears in the agreement.

Minnesota's residential rental disclosure guidance requires the lease to identify utility responsibilities. Advertisements and the lease must disclose whether utilities are included. Mandatory rental charges also have disclosure requirements; the first lease page must identify the required total monthly payment. These residential leasing rules should not be confused with a vacation platform's separate price display.

Minnesota Attorney General: cost and utility disclosures .

Heating type and winter budgeting

Forced-air systems, hot-water radiators, electric baseboards, and heat pumps can have different operating characteristics. The equipment label alone does not predict the bill. Fuel prices, insulation, floor area, thermostat settings, weather, and equipment condition also matter. Request available prior winter bills or a utility estimate for the actual home. A previous occupant's bill is a reference, not a guarantee.

• Identify the heating fuel and whether hot water uses the same energy source.
• Confirm who controls the thermostat, whether rooms have separate controls, and whether any heating cost is shared.
• Ask about window condition, insulation, drafts, furnace servicing, and any required filter replacement.
• Identify the contact for a heating failure outside ordinary office hours.
• Ask whether a vacation home's advertised amenities, such as a fireplace, sauna, or hot tub, are operating, seasonal, or subject to an additional disclosed charge.

Minnesota's residential heat requirement

Minnesota Statutes, section 504B.161, requires covered residential premises to be equipped or furnished with heat maintaining at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit in habitable places, including kitchens and bathrooms, from October 1 through April 30, unless a utility company requires and instructs a reduction. A lease cannot simply waive the statute's covenants. Who pays a utility bill is a separate question from the landlord's legal duties.

Read the current residential maintenance and heat statute .

Cold Weather Rule protection is conditional

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission explains that winter shutoff protection requires qualifying customers to arrange and keep a payment plan with the utility. It is not an automatic cancellation of utility bills or an unconditional ban on disconnection. Rules depend on the utility and heating arrangement. Delivered fuels such as propane, fuel oil, and wood are not covered in the same way.

Minnesota Public Utilities Commission: shutoff protection and payment plans .

Winter parking, garages, snow removal, and ice

Verify the actual parking arrangement

Confirm whether a garage or off-street space is included, assigned, heated, shared, or separately charged. Check whether your vehicle fits, how access works, who clears the driveway, and whether overnight guests may park there. A photograph of a garage does not establish that the booking includes its use.

For street parking, consult the municipality's live snow-emergency information and posted signs. Minneapolis and Saint Paul operate different systems. Do not assume that ordinary parking permission remains valid during plowing restrictions. This page does not indicate whether a snow emergency is currently in effect.

Minneapolis snow-emergency information ; Saint Paul snow-emergency parking map .

Sidewalk, driveway, and walkway responsibilities

Minneapolis states that sidewalks at single-family houses and duplexes must be cleared within 24 hours after snowfall stops; other property types have a shorter daytime clearing period. Saint Paul's guidance requires property owners to clear the full sidewalk width within 24 hours. Read the applicable local instructions for the precise timing and surfaces involved.

The lease or booking should identify who performs snow removal and ice treatment, but a private agreement does not automatically remove an owner's public-law obligations. Minnesota law places conditions on tenant maintenance agreements, including conspicuous writing and adequate consideration, and preserves statutory common-area duties. Obtain advice about the particular arrangement if responsibility is disputed.

Minneapolis sidewalk clearing rules ; Saint Paul snow and sidewalk questions ; Minnesota tenant-maintenance provisions .

• Ask who clears the driveway, front steps, public sidewalk, garbage access, and emergency exits.
• Identify where shovels, sand, and ice-treatment materials are supplied, if the agreement requires guest or tenant participation.
• Confirm the snow contractor's contact and the process for reporting blocked access.
• Ask how parked vehicles must be moved for driveway plowing and whether an alternate space exists.
• Keep exterior access and exits usable; report dangerous ice, failed heat, and blocked doors promptly.

Dogs, cats, pet rent, deposits, and restrictions

For ordinary pets, obtain the property's complete written policy before paying. A listing saying “pet friendly” does not necessarily permit every species, number, size, or breed. Ask about approval, maximum animal count, weight restrictions, breed restrictions, vaccination requirements, shared-area rules, unattended animals, waste disposal, and any exclusion from furniture or bedrooms.

A label such as “non-refundable deposit” does not resolve the legal classification of money held as security. Separate ordinary pet rules from disability-related accommodation rules. In covered housing, assistance animals are not pets; accommodation can include waiving a pet fee or deposit, subject to the applicable legal framework. Airbnb has its own service-animal and accessibility policy, discussed separately below.

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: assistance animals ; Minnesota residential security deposits ; Service animals and accessibility section .

Tenant screening, application charges, and background reports

Residential tenant screening and a vacation platform's guest verification are different processes. Before submitting a residential application or paying a screening charge, obtain the criteria, the screening company's identity, and the written policy for charges that are not used. Verify the property jurisdiction; city protections are not identical throughout Minnesota.

If a report leads to denial

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau explains that federal law requires notice when a tenant or credit report is used to deny housing, including the reporting company's contact information, the right to dispute information, and the right to request a free report within 60 days. Keep the denial notice and dispute inaccuracies with the reporting company. These rights do not mean that the listing website itself made the landlord's decision.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: tenant screening reports ; Minnesota application and agreement guidance .

Neighborhood rules and property-specific restrictions

Verify the actual street address and municipality. A postal city name does not necessarily identify every authority governing the parcel. County, city, township, health, shoreland, condominium, and homeowners association requirements may address different parts of the same property.

• Parking: Assigned spaces, permits, overnight restrictions, seasonal plowing rules, garage access, and visitor parking.
• Use of the property: Whether short stays are authorized, occupancy limits, number of bedrooms approved for sleeping, and any minimum-stay condition.
• Neighbors: Quiet hours, noise, parties, visitors, rubbish storage, recycling, smoking, and outdoor gathering areas.
• Shared spaces: Laundry, kitchens, entrances, yards, docks, pools, and access available to the owner or other occupants.
• Property documents: Lease restrictions on subletting and any relevant building or homeowners association rules.
• Lake and rural properties: Drinking-water source, septic capacity, shoreline use, private roads, and seasonal access.

Request the rules before paying. A disclosed private rule still must be considered alongside applicable law. For complaints about a rule or permit, use the authority responsible for that subject instead of assuming that an online platform can decide local zoning or enforce a city ordinance.

Minnesota lodging licenses and rental taxes

Lodging classification and licensing

The Minnesota Department of Health includes vacation home rentals among lodging operations. Its guidance places rentals of rooms for less than one week in the hotel-or-motel licensing category; other categories depend on the operation. Minnesota Department of Health or a delegated local public health agency may be the licensing authority, based on location. Contact that authority about the specific property and rental pattern.

Minnesota Department of Health lodging definitions · Minnesota Department of Health licensing and jurisdiction information

Sales and lodging taxes

Minnesota Revenue treats temporary residential rentals as lodging. Its guidance generally makes stays of fewer than 30 days taxable. Stays of 30 days or more can also be taxable without the qualifying written agreement described by Revenue. Merely staying past day 30 does not automatically remove the tax.

Local sales taxes and special lodging taxes may also apply. Some local lodging taxes are administered by the locality. Verify which taxes a platform collects and what responsibilities remain with the property operator; do not assume that a booking website handles every tax.

Minnesota Revenue: lodging and related services · Residential short-term rentals

Selected Minnesota counties: official rental-rule starting points

These county references help readers identify licensing and land-use questions. Each property's city or township may have additional requirements. Read the authority's actual jurisdiction before assuming a county process covers the address.

Local rules: the property address matters

Current Airbnb home cancellation rules

There is no single cancellation policy for every Airbnb home. For standard stays under 28 nights, the current policy includes a 24-hour refund period after confirmation when booking occurs at least seven days before check-in. Certain non-refundable hotel listings are exempt.

These deadlines summarize the listing price and taxes; Airbnb guest-service-fee refunds have separate conditions. Later cancellations have different payout and refund calculations. Listing-local time controls. Invitation-only policies and tests also exist. Reservations of 28 or more nights use longer-stay policies. Read the actual booking's policy and refund preview.

Read Airbnb's complete current cancellation policies . This table is an educational summary, not a substitute for the reservation terms.

Host cancellations, property problems, and disrupted stays

When the host cancels

Airbnb's Rebooking and Refund Policy states that a guest whose host cancels before check-in is entitled to a full refund. Rebooking help depends on availability and comparable pricing. The policy describes temporary travel credit for immediate rebooking, but permits a refund to the original payment method; unused credit is refunded after 72 hours.

When the property is materially wrong

Covered reservation issues can include failure to provide access, unsafe or uninhabitable conditions, and major differences from the listing. Airbnb generally requires reporting within 72 hours after discovering the issue, supported by relevant evidence. The result depends on the facts and the policy.

Airbnb: Rebooking and refund policy for homes . These are platform procedures; statutory rights may also apply.

Consequences when a host cancels

Airbnb's Host Cancellation Policy provides for fees and other consequences, with exceptions for qualifying circumstances. Possible consequences include calendar restrictions and account or listing action. Hosts should not push guests to cancel when the host cannot honor the reservation.

Airbnb: Host Cancellation Policy for homes

Weather, outages, and major events

Airbnb's Major Disruptive Events Policy focuses on qualifying events at the reservation location. Routine foreseeable winter conditions, individual illness, or a flight cancellation do not automatically qualify. A covered government restriction or major utility outage may change the analysis. Read the precise scope before assuming either a guaranteed refund or a guaranteed forfeiture.

Airbnb: Major Disruptive Events Policy

Prices, additional fees, and payment channels

Airbnb requires mandatory charges to be disclosed before booking in the appropriate pricing field or included in the nightly rate. Its payment-transparency policy generally requires booking payments and mandatory fees to stay on the platform, with specified exceptions. Optional charges and certain permitted host arrangements have their own conditions.

Airbnb separately describes cleaning, pet, and extra-guest fees. Its guidance says hosts should not impose fees or penalties for failure to perform specific cleaning or checkout tasks. Service animals are not ordinary pets for fee purposes.

Pricing and payment transparency · Additional fees for home listings

For any rental, distinguish the advertised nightly amount from the final total, the refundable amount, and any security or damage process. Keep the booking record and the terms that applied when it was made.

Airbnb service fees: check the booking's current structure

Airbnb's live service-fee article describes a transition from split fees to a single fee deducted from the host payout. It says most hosts on the single-fee structure pay 15.5 percent, with variations. It also explains that bookings made before migration are unaffected by the switch. Therefore, one percentage should not be applied to every old and new reservation.

For a split-fee booking, a separate guest service fee may appear. For a single-fee booking, the charge is deducted from the host payout. Read the actual price breakdown and the host's transaction record where relevant. A platform service fee is a company charge, not a government lodging tax. Currency and jurisdiction can affect charges.

Airbnb's current service-fee structures and migration guidance ; Airbnb service-fee refund rules .

Cleaning charges, checkout duties, and extra-cleaning disputes

Airbnb describes a cleaning fee as a one-time host-set charge included in the total price. Under its current guest guidance, cancellation during an applicable free-cancellation period returns the cleaning fee. Outside that period, the cleaning fee is treated as part of the nightly price for the host policy's refund calculation. The page separately preserves older treatment for reservations booked before April 21, 2025. Do not assume every cancellation before arrival returns the entire cleaning charge.

Verify Airbnb's cleaning-fee refund rules .

Read checkout instructions before booking, including rubbish, dishes, keys, linen instructions, and departure time. Airbnb's fee guidance says hosts should not impose charges or penalties for failing to complete specific cleaning or checkout tasks. A routine cleaning fee, a documented damage claim, and an alleged extra-cleaning loss are different categories; an additional charge should be reviewed through the applicable process.

Airbnb's additional-fee guidance ; Airbnb's explanation of host cleaning fees ; Pricing, damage claims, and payment procedures .

For a residential lease, a landlord's security-deposit deductions are governed by residential law rather than the vacation platform's cleaning-fee rules. Photograph the home's condition at the beginning and end of the stay, keep the accepted instructions, and ask for the written basis and evidence for a disputed charge.

Deposits, damage claims, and returning money

Residential security deposits

Minnesota Statutes, section 504B.178, governs qualifying residential security deposits according to their function. It generally requires return of the deposit and applicable interest or a specific written withholding statement within three weeks after tenancy ends and after the landlord receives the mailing address or delivery instructions. Special circumstances can have different deadlines. Deductions may address qualifying unpaid obligations or restoring the initial condition, with ordinary wear and tear excluded.

Read the current Minnesota security-deposit statute .

Local deposit limits can add requirements. Minneapolis and Saint Paul publish different limit and exception details. Check the city rules before assuming that a statewide summary supplies the entire answer.

Minneapolis deposit guidance ; Saint Paul deposit guidance .

Airbnb deposits and damage requests

Airbnb's payment policy generally prohibits security deposits and incidental card holds, while allowing specified exceptions for certain hosts and hotels when properly disclosed. Host reimbursement requests use the Resolution Center. Do not treat an unexpected private payment demand as automatically authorized merely because it comes from someone identifying themselves as the host.

Airbnb pricing, security deposits, and damage-claim policy .

Terms of Service, payment terms, privacy, and personal information

Read the platform contract before accepting it

Airbnb's Terms of Service link to payment terms, taxes, cancellation policies, refund rules, privacy information, host privacy standards, reviews, and other incorporated policies. The general terms reviewed here show a February 5, 2026 update date. They also identify different terms for certain regions and United States arbitration and class-action provisions. Read the version applicable to your residence, transaction, and reservation.

Airbnb Terms of Service and linked Payments Terms of Service .

Airbnb privacy information

The Privacy Policy reviewed here also shows February 5, 2026. It explains personal-information collection, uses, disclosures, rights, retention, and security, with supplements including one for people in the United States. Review it before providing identity documents, payment information, communications, or account data. A request to delete information does not necessarily require immediate removal of every legally retained transaction record.

Airbnb Privacy Policy ; Regional privacy supplements and Cookie Policy .

Host handling of guest information

Airbnb's Host Privacy Standards restrict use of guest information to managing reservations, complying with law, and delivering the service. Be cautious about unnecessary requests to register with another website or provide unrelated information. Verify the purpose and the applicable policy rather than sending sensitive documents through an unfamiliar message link.

Airbnb Host Privacy Standards .

This information page does not accept rental applications, collect payments, process identification, or make bookings. Following an external link takes you to another organization's site and its privacy practices. Website-wide hosting and privacy arrangements remain separate from the third-party policies discussed here.

Cameras, recording devices, and privacy

Airbnb prohibits cameras and recording devices monitoring home interiors, including shared interior spaces, even if switched off or disconnected. Hidden cameras are prohibited. Allowed exterior devices must be disclosed and cannot monitor exterior areas where heightened privacy is expected.

Disclosed noise-level monitors may be allowed, but not in bedrooms, bathrooms, or sleeping areas. A noise-level monitor measures sound levels; it is not permission to record conversations.

Airbnb: Restrictions on security cameras and other devices in homes . Applicable privacy laws and special jurisdictional exceptions require separate attention.

Safety, neighbors, and property protection

Service animals and accessibility

Airbnb's Accessibility Policy generally permits service animals even where ordinary pets are prohibited, subject to the policy's limited exceptions and applicable law. Guests do not have to provide service-animal documentation or disclose the animal before booking. Airbnb's pet-fee guidance says service animals stay without a pet fee.

Emotional support animals are a different category, with obligations that can depend on jurisdiction and applicable law. A residential tenancy can raise different accommodation questions from a short vacation booking. Do not use one platform summary as a complete statement of federal or Minnesota housing law.

Airbnb Accessibility Policy · Welcoming guests with accessibility needs

Longer stays and residential tenant rights

Airbnb uses 28 consecutive nights as its monthly-stay threshold. Minnesota's lodging-tax guidance uses a different 30-day framework and written-agreement conditions. Those thresholds answer different questions.

Neither number, by itself, resolves whether a particular occupant has residential tenancy protections. For a house being used as a residence, review the facts, the agreement, and Minnesota landlord–tenant law. The Attorney General's handbook is an official starting point for leases, repairs, deposits, entry, notices, and other residential rental issues.

Minnesota Attorney General: Landlords and Tenants — Rights and Responsibilities · Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 504B

Where readers encounter listings and what to verify there

Zillow, Apartments.com, HotPads, and social-media housing groups are examples of places readers may encounter rental information. Their inclusion is descriptive, not a recommendation, popularity ranking, or assurance that a listing is genuine. This page does not publish a statewide market-share ranking or claim that one website has the most Minnesota users.

Listing availability and prices can change. A website's rules govern its services; they do not replace the landlord's lease, a host's accepted booking terms, or applicable law. No live listings or personal recommendations are supplied on this page.

Rental scams, duplicate listings, and document safety

The Federal Trade Commission describes scams that copy real listings, substitute contact details, collect application or deposit payments, or solicit identity documents for a home that is not available. Search the address and owner or manager independently, compare conflicting listings, and verify authority to rent before sending money or sensitive documents. Even a tour or convincing photograph is not a complete authenticity check.

Pressure to act immediately, unusual payment demands, refusal to explain ownership, and an implausibly low price deserve scrutiny. Report a suspected fraudulent listing through the platform and the appropriate consumer-protection channel. This page does not investigate listings or certify landlords.

Federal Trade Commission: rental listing scams and reporting options .

Examples that show why the distinctions matter

These are educational examples, not findings about any named host, guest, or property.

Questions from hosts, renters, and readers

Review every 90 days, with dated corrections

Current research baseline: October 29, 2026. Next planned review: January 27, 2027.

The review checks Airbnb terms, privacy, cancellation, service fees, cleaning charges, rebooking, safety, accessibility, and host rules, plus Minnesota utilities, residential rental, tax, screening, city, and selected county sources. Confirmed changes will be reflected in a revised page with a new review date. Earlier policy descriptions remain historical context only where explicitly labeled.

The review cycle is an editorial schedule. It does not promise continuous monitoring, immediate publication, or a live policy feed. The rules applicable to a specific reservation may depend on booking dates, policy effective dates, location, and the accepted terms.

Official research sources

Source links open in the same tab. Government pages describe their own jurisdictions; Airbnb pages document that company's policies. Historical publication dates and policy effective dates can differ from the date this archive was reviewed.

1. Minnesota Historical Society / MNopedia — Tourism in Minnesota, 1835–1940
2. Airbnb — Corporate history and timeline
3. Minnesota Department of Health — Lodging classifications
4. Minnesota Department of Health — Licensing and local jurisdiction
5. Minnesota Revenue — Lodging and related services
6. Minnesota Revenue — Residential short-term rentals
7. Minneapolis — Short-term rental property requirements
8. Saint Paul — Host and platform licensing
9. Duluth — Current rental permitting notice
10. Internal Revenue Service — Publication 527, Residential Rental Property
11. Minnesota Attorney General — Landlord–tenant handbook
12. Minnesota Legislature — Chapter 504B
13. Airbnb — Current home cancellation policies
14. Airbnb — Rebooking and refund policy for homes
15. Airbnb — Host Cancellation Policy for homes
16. Airbnb — Major Disruptive Events Policy
17. Airbnb — Pricing and payment transparency
18. Airbnb — Additional fees
19. Airbnb — Cameras and recording devices
20. Airbnb — Community Disturbance Policy
21. Airbnb — Home safety
22. Airbnb — Accessibility Policy
23. Airbnb — AirCover for Hosts and insurance
24. Minnesota heat and maintenance statute
25. Minnesota Attorney General: agreement, fees, and utilities
26. Minnesota Public Utilities Commission: shutoff protection
27. Minneapolis renter rights and screening
28. Saint Paul tenant protections
29. Minneapolis snow-emergency information
30. Minneapolis sidewalk clearing requirements
31. Saint Paul snow-emergency parking map
32. Saint Paul snow and sidewalk questions
33. Washington County lodging licensing
34. Stearns County lodging requirements
35. Crow Wing County short-term rental licensing
36. Otter Tail County vacation-home rentals
37. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: assistance animals
38. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: screening reports
39. Minnesota residential security-deposit statute
40. Federal Trade Commission: rental listing scams
41. Airbnb Terms of Service
42. Airbnb Privacy Policy
43. Airbnb privacy supplements and Cookie Policy
44. Airbnb Host Privacy Standards
45. Airbnb service-fee structures
46. Airbnb service-fee refunds
47. Airbnb cleaning-fee refunds
48. Zillow and HotPads applicable terms
49. Zillow Group Privacy Notice
50. Apartments.com Terms of Service
51. Apartments.com legal directory
52. Apartments.com Privacy Notice

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