Comments on: Home Owner Hell: A Renter Lists our Property

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 07:51:16 +0000

In reply to Matt. I agree with you Matt. The Tennant is not a low life just for hosting people through airbnb!

By: B

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:41:31 +0000

I am experiencing this same situation but on the other side.
I am a guest who booked a full house for a long stay in airbnb, which then happened to be a sublet. The landlord explicitly prohibited to sublet the apartment to my host in their contract.
After many discussions with the host, airbnb and even conversations with the landlord, tomorrow I am moving to a hotel. Airbnb has refunded only half the money of the days left.
If I would have known I would be occupying the apartment illegally I would have never booked it. Guests assume all listings in airbnb are published by people who have the right to publish them. It is not the case tho, and airbnb does nothing about it. My host listing is still on offer on the website!

By: Stephanie Sherwood

Stephanie Sherwood — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 05:46:12 +0000

I am experiencing the same thing as the person above. I spent years and a lot of money to perfect my home. I moved overseas and rented it out to a woman (deadbeat) who was running Air B&B out of my home. This is in direct violation of the contract she signed (the lease). She has abandoned the property leaving beds, bassinets, garbage, junk and food in the fridge/freezer. I have tried several times to contact Air B&B to simply get verification that my house was used as a rental space for Air B&B. No reply. I need verification as another means to move forward with the legal proceedings and proof that she was doing it, rather than just my neighbors telling me that she was. Frustrating that there is difficulty in getting a reply from this large company!

By: Airbnb Sucks

Airbnb Sucks — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:33:38 +0000

In reply to Matt. The OP has every right to be angry. It's one thing to own a place and rent it on Airbnb but it's another entirely to be a renter doing the same thing. When a person rents a place they pay for the right to live there, not to use the place as a hotel (unless explicitly agreed upon).

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 12:07:06 +0000

In reply to Matt. Matt, if they couldn't make ends meet, I don't think they would have rented the house to the renter. The renter is a renter, they can't do whatever they want to do to the house that they do NOT own. No substance to their post? LOL. I don't know anybody that charges their guests to stay with them. Matt, please take a reality pill. Thank you.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 12:01:02 +0000

Hurrah!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 19:14:23 +0000

So what if they listed it on Airbnb? They are renting the space and you get rent for the space any way. What exactly have they done other than let guests stay in the space they are paying you for? You trash talk them but there’s no substance to your post other than Airbnb wouldn’t help you take the listing down (which they shouldn’t because it’s within a renters rights to have guests). What if your renters have no other way of making ends meet? You sound horrible and greedy. Get a life.