Fannie Mae will now allow rental payments from Airbnb properties to be used as income when refinancing a home. In a new initiative with Airbnb and three financial institutions, lenders can consider home-sharing income earned on borrowers’ properties when applying to refinance their primary residence mortgage. Prior to this initiative, lenders usually wouldn’t consider income from renting out a home or rooms in a home as a part of a borrower’s regular income stream. Airbnb hosts can apply to refinance their mortgages with Quicken Loans, Citizen Bank or Better Mortgage and have that earnings counted.