- July 24, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
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Federal safety regulators are calling on popular vacation rental platforms to disable the use of home elevators following the reported death of another young child.
Some platforms are already obliging.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a letter to Airbnb, Vrbo and other vacation rental platforms Tuesday asking them to require hosts to “lock outer access doors or otherwise disable the elevators in their properties.”
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The letter marks the first time the CPSC publicly called on vacation rental businesses “to take immediate action.” However, the notice came just after a 7-year-old reportedly died in a vacation home elevator in North Carolina.
In response, Vrbo agreed to “share important elevator safety information with property owners who have residential elevators” the company said in a statement to FOX Business. This warning will…
