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Airbnb Escalates House Party Crackdown a Week After Filing for an IPO

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: The Hollywood Hills area of California was the site of a tragic shooting at a house party in an Airbnb rental on October 31, 2019. Airbnb has taken several steps to limit or ban house parties in the interim.  Adobe / BrianKinney

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Airbnb looks to be cleaning up some overhangs before its anticipated initial public offering, including being fairly aggressive about promoting its crackdown on wayward house parties in its rentals. In case investors ask about the issue, Airbnb has an answer.

In the run-up to — and in the five days since — filing its paperwork to become a public company, Airbnb has publicized its lack of tolerance for house parties and events in its rentals. In the latest twist, the company announced Monday that it suspended or removed more than 50 listings in Los Angeles County, California, that were the subject of complaints or allegedly violated Airbnb's policies on house parties or events. The company conducted a similar blitz in Arizona last month. Clearly no would-be public company answering to shareholders, nor even a private one, would want a repetition of the the Halloween 2019 house party shooting in one of its rentals in the Hollywood Hills area of California that saw five people die. It's certain th

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