Feds crack down on brothers behind 45 million illegal robocalls"Three New Jersey brothers will pay $1.6 million to settle charges of instigating more than 45 million illegal robocalls nationwide, including to tens of millions of Americans on the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call Registry, the agency announced on Friday.The siblings also agreed to a permanent ban on telemarketing and will hand over a residential property to resolve the agency's allegations, made in a complaint filed by Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC.

As far as AirBNB, it looks like the cities are looking to crack down on short term rentals.

We've recently seen a few municipalities crack down on STRs and vacation rentals fall in that category.

That said, they do not ‘crack down or disallow’ short term rentals, and instead defer to the many homeowners’ associations in the area to regulate as necessary.

There is such a long waiting list that we have found the housing officers crack down on them really quick.

This is where the IRS is starting to crack down on what they deem gaming the system by self-determined real estate professionals.There are several requirements for material participation, and satisfaction of any one test will allow you to be considered materially participating.

I know a lot of people that do short term rentals and Airbnb on my street, east north street, and I haven’t seen the city crack down in anyone... not to say they won’t If a neighbor complains. 

There is a hard crackdown on ghost GCs who use their friends or someone elses license.

My understanding is most cities that crack down usually didn't have any regulations in place.

Some states including Florida have really started to crack down on the SMS bulk mailers.