Comments on: How To Lose $8000 and Two Months of Your Life https://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/ Uncensored Airbnb Stories from Hosts & Guests Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:20:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Liat https://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-16800 Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:20:16 +0000 http://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/#comment-16800 In reply to GeninFrance.

We did file a police report, you should have read the story better. The host wiped the place clean of any evidence which makes her look fishy. I did everything right, the day of the incident according to Airbnb and the police. What makes me upset is that they just give a warning to the host and no investigation.

]]> By: GeninFrance https://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-16433 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 19:48:20 +0000 http://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/#comment-16433 PS – the idea of suing Airbnb or the host to get back goods that were stolen by someone else (who you can’t prove did it, and on a property you willingly vacated before the police showed up !!) is frankly just impossible. Face up to the fact that your decisions to leave before the police showed up were your fault, and your fault alone. You should have insisted the police come out early in the AM to take the police report or gone down to the station yourselves. The owner did not force you to leave, and if the owner had other rentals coming in and the police did not show up that AM, then they would have had to clean the place in order to take the next rental. Airbnb is terrible to hosts — if the host was to cancel the next reservation (assuming they had someone arriving the day you left) then the host is punished by Airbnb for a whole YEAR on their listing. And you have no actual way to prove the owner was in on the theft and are just making suppositions about it. The people on bikes were probably casing the neighbourhood and knew there were rental units in the area (easy to rip off). That does not mean they were working with the host – that is pretty much slander, and that is probably why Airbnb can not keep the review on their ad. The host cannot be blamed for being robbed really – and you only suspect they were involved. If you cared so much about how much you lost, then one person in the group should have waited for the police. This is why people buy travel insurance …

]]> By: MIK https://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-16432 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 19:44:20 +0000 http://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/#comment-16432 Call your credit cards. Most travel credit cards have insurance for these types of things.

]]> By: GeninFrance https://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-16430 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 19:39:12 +0000 http://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/#comment-16430 Guess what – while I feel for you, Airbnb does NOT owe you money for stolen items. You are supposed to have TRAVEL INSURANCE for coverage of items being stolen while travelling !!
And when a crime happens, it interrupts people’s lives. You should have filled out a police report to say what was stolen and damaged, and taken a copy. Yes that takes time — but that is what the law says you must do. Then you have a trace of what happened. Someone of the group should have stayed behind to deal with the police if your stolen stuff meant that much to you. The owner of the apartment needed that police report to also claim on HER insurance for damages. By not being there – how can she do that ?
This is one case where Airbnb is actually not at fault. I have a lot of negative things to say about Airbnb but in this case — this is not “THEIR” property – it is the property owner’s place. Your insurance and her insurance are who need to take care of this, and if you cared about getting your stolen stuff back then sticking around for the police to show up is the minimum that you MUST do.

]]> By: DonttrustEm https://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-16349 Wed, 05 Apr 2017 19:56:03 +0000 http://www.airbnbhell.com/how-to-lose-8000-and-two-months-of-your-life/#comment-16349 Wow, I’m really sorry. I didn’t think anything could be worse than the experience I had with Airbnb recently, but this just might be.

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