Airbnb home-owner host in SF moving away- means the tenant becomes the Airbnb host

[Laura1147]

Hi,

We are moving away and renting our place (our primary residence & our airbnb space)

Our new tenant is going to take over our primary residence as well as the Airbnb rental.

Is it better if:

a) tenant becomes a co-host (in which case would we are still the admins of our airbnb hosting account? would this mean we still need to register as a business on behalf of the tenant? and would this mean we still need to pay taxes on the income instead of the tenant paying taxes and would it mean we have to register with SF city instead of the tenant?)

b) tenant sets up a new account as a new airbnb host (in which case would we close our airbnb hosting account? would this mean we don't need to register as a business? and would this mean we don't need to pay taxes on the income or register with SF city?)

Thank you,

LL

[Linda108]

@Laura1147  I think the SF rental rules are different for long term versus short term so you might just use a traditional rental agreement with the long term tennant.  If you want to allow the tennant to operate an Air BNB business, you would include that in your rental agreement with the tennant and the tennant would become an Air BNB host.

Perhaps I do not understand your post or what you are trying to accomplish, but I hope this helps.  Also, there is a SF Home Sharing Club with members specific to SF that might provide more support.