Demand for apps that operated as an "Airbnb for pools" surged during the pandemic. On apps like Swimply and Peerspace users can rent outdoor spaces by the hour. Here's how you can rent a pool in your ...

Swimply is an online platform that allows pool owners to rent their swimming pools by the hour. Several Stark area residents have their pools listed on the site. Hosts say it's a good way to offset ...

Heather Carson found out about Swimply, “the Airbnb for pools,” like most people find out about anything these days: on social media. She had already used Airbnb to rent out a home she owns in Palm ...

With Memorial Day weekend only weeks away, landlords who rent their houses and swimming pools to vacationers plan to raise objections Thursday as Brookhaven officials consider toughening the town's ...

“Think Airbnb, but for swimming pools” — that’s how one company called Swimply describes itself. It’s one of the platforms popping up that connects prospective pool renters to pool owners who have ...

We have grown comfortable with our so-called sharing economy. We forget that Airbnb offers us a stranger’s bed for the night (or longer). Uber puts us in a stranger’s car. Those are just the ...

Chris, a homeowner in Des Moines, was surprised when a woman he didn’t know recently pulled into his driveway and asked if he could move his vehicles. She believed she had booked his pool for the ...

Landlords and some Brookhaven Town residents offer starkly different images of short-term house rentals as town officials contemplate changes to the law regulating them. During a public hearing ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (7News) — It is a swimming pool rental app that started in 2018 and its popularity blew up during the pandemic. Well, now some homeowners in the D.C. area are getting fed up ...

As New York bakes in the summer heat, two companies are fighting to become the city’s go-to “Airbnb for pools.” Swimply — a Long Island-based swimming pool-sharing company whose backers include a ...

A Florida state lawmaker says he has been inspired to introduce legislation to improve pool safety standards at short-term rental homes statewide after watching a Scripps News investigation.