But a bitter row is bubbling about plans to rent out these peaceful properties.
The company, which allows people to rent out their residences, has been growing at hyper-speed.
Owners can then choose when they want to rent out their car and at what price.
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Like Amazon, Google would be able to rent out the excess capacity of its network.
Now, Mr. Ng says, he is able to rent out some at nearly market rent.
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It is also about to rent out some of its council office space to Essex social services.
In Daventry, the council part-owns the ICON Innovation Centre and is building 45 homes to rent out.
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About 5 years ago, I downsized my business and tried to rent out a floor of my office building.
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An Azerbaijani company that had imported a few London taxis to rent out for birthdays and weddings also came.
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In fact, your employer may be paying to rent out the advertising spot on your LinkedIn page right now.
You have board members and advisors who seem quite happy to rent out their credibility and reputations like prom tuxedos.
Government accommodation has also gone to "friendly" journalists, allowing some to rent out their own apartments at a good profit.
An Isle of Man Methodist Minister has denied being homophobic after refusing to rent out his house to a lesbian couple.
It will be the first time the National Trust of Guernsey has renovated a property to rent out as visitor accommodation.
This is why you should keep good records if you want to deduct travel expenses to rent out your home in Florida.
In some parts of the country, houses bought to rent out are given names because they attract attention and are more memorable.
Still, most investment home buyers, and a fourth of the vacation home purchasers the Realtors surveyed, do plan to rent out their properties.
Great Dawley Parish Council is expected to rent out its existing offices at Dawley House, on Burton Street, to provide a "much-needed" income.
But in conducting their research they also kept hearing about how venues had extra rooms that they wanted to rent out for events.
Chinese cyber-crooks are only too happy to rent out their networks to other gangs and governments who want to launch attacks using them.
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This could, in turn, hurt government plans to rent out foreclosed homes, as many of them are in outlying areas, the economist points out.
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Airbnb is the most prominent of a group of startups that enable people to rent out assets to others through online or mobile services.
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Airbnb allows you to rent out space to tourists and visitors.
He added that this was an opportunity to rent out some of its space and that it would not interfere with any films or arts projects.
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Rather, I think there has to be a better system for companies to rent out games, as Blockbusters close around the country and Gamefly is always months behind.
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Banks have owned their branches and operational facilities, and prevailed in litigation permitting them to rent out surplus space and receive property pledged as collateral after a default.
The decision to rent out up to nine residential properties formerly used by resident lock and weir keepers along the Thames was taken by the Environment Agency on Friday.
In fact, it c osts more to rent out an office in Shanghai and Hong Kong than it does in New York, according to CB Richard Ellis, a commercial real estate firm.
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Now a slew of new firms are racing to enlist thousands of individual PC owners to join their "grids, " aiming to rent out this parallel power to computation-hungry clients for a fee.
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