Consumer Alert: Your Airbnb comes with heat during the winter, but ...

Hosts are trying to keep your money when the heat goes out. Don't let them.

When Frederick Miranda checked into an Airbnb in Santa Fe, N.M., for Christmas, everything looked perfect. They had rented a "lovely" adobe near the center of town, just a short walk from shopping and museums.

It was not perfect.

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