Crackdown on deceptive Online Reviews. New york regulators slamming fines on 19 companies for posting fake reviews online. Now, while consumers no fake reviews are part of the game, you may be shocked at how far companies will go to get a positive review posted online. Here to weigh in, branding expert mark rudolph. Always good to have you here. No, i was looking at this story. I have to tell you, you know, people use these reviews not just to pick a place to go for dinner saturday night, but to pick attorneys, doctors, they guy who will renovate your home. It is all done on line. How widespread is the problem of these fake reviews and what are the stakes . Well, it is very widespread, but the stakes are very small if you decide to take them with a grain of salt. If you decide to live online and believe everything you read online, then you are a fool. Gerri well, mark i have to disagree with you here. Obviously you have to take things with a grain of salt, but more and more people do l
Fit all we all have diversity different issues when we bought our house in noah valley we were told it was a singlefamily home we had anlogically inlaw unit we legalized it and were able to rent it out plus provide housing for our friends and family out of town because we didnt have enough space in and out now, its legalized did owner weve used air b and b and been happy, however, to put a 90 day limit on our use would not be helpful were both retired and use that in case the remainder of the year but if you limit it to 90 days we couldnt rent it out the remainder of the time because people dont rent long term for 9 nos to from our prospective we like the 90 days to be lifted also im not im not sure i agree with the registry situation ive had difficulties with building and planning and not to give them another layer to spicket and that would be a disservice and not a good use of typewriter money thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Hi, im patrick a Business Owner in west selma
They went for a local startup and as a landlord ill allow them to sub let if its safe and agreed upon way with with my own home i moved to the outer sunset. There are so few xoomgsz options in my neighborhood and able to shape the visitors impressions of the city the people are oftentimes investing visiting family and caring for family members or experiencing a different part of the city some have never been to the beach and also my guests are attendee to 70 marathon and americas cup and dream forest and other conferences if you support those high revenue events i hope youll support home sharing to provide accommodations to the of those are my neighbors and sharing my home helps me to contribute i invest more in my property to provide a hospitable investment its here to stay where theres demand thanks. Next speaker. Hi ami ive been here for 40 and a half hours because this is important im jeanie and together with my husband i own a small home and lived in San Francisco for 33 years wev
Newest commissioner commissioner johnson. Im sure youre aware of i used to have the pleasure of sitting on the San Francisco board of supervisors as a lawmaker so we grappled are the number of issues in my time i salute supervisor chiu and this department for grappleing with a thorn i didnt issue the horse is out of the barn and regulation is against us we have to speak about one thing i think is in keeping with the department the thrust of the departments recommendations and that is the issue of enforce ability i was ready to pass or introduce laws or support laws that were on their face unimpoverishable over and over your staff said as introduced this will be very, very hard to enforce but im here to speak on the narrow issue which i think i need to grapple with and recommend to the board of supervisors be included thats the issue of a fee. If you go to the departments website you have today at the height of the greatest earthquake you, you must impose oppose one quadrant plus mr. Ra
Is out of the barn and regulation is against us we have to speak about one thing i think is in keeping with the department the thrust of the departments recommendations and that is the issue of enforce ability i was ready to pass or introduce laws or support laws that were on their face unimpoverishable over and over your staff said as introduced this will be very, very hard to enforce but im here to speak on the narrow issue which i think i need to grapple with and recommend to the board of supervisors be included thats the issue of a fee. If you go to the departments website you have today at the height of the greatest earthquake you, you must impose oppose one quadrant plus mr. Ram 5 okay 7 if you want to count the secretary and the head of the unit if you want ill give you steven one on the ground per quadrant and if youre going to do something to monitor the number of days you must draw a next you guess and figure out the per night fee what the required requisite and make that as