People Share 30 Horror Stories After Woman Shares How Her House Was Listed As An Airbnb By A Stranger

Lawsuit

Damn!

Yeah nah. If you're only renting to friends and family you can do what you like, but if you're advertising to the public and renting to the public you have to abide by the relevant laws including anti-discrimination ones.

I stay at Airbnb's often, and one thing I always do is message the owner in advance. If no response or one that feels off, I look elsewhere.

Costumer support, that would be nice :-D

I would have been a little surprised but relieved, because that would've been a crunchy situation to walk into.

Some one is using pictures of your property to scam Rental Application and Background Check fees. In San Francisco, they usually ask for, between $30 and $100 and desperate people looking for rentals keep the scammers in business. ALWAYS ask to see the property before paying an application fee.

Probably the only time you would WANT to get stung by a bee, so you could sue for negligence.

They bought the house before their apartment lease was up. To not have to come out of pocket for both rent and mortgage they rented out their new house. The people renting the house were there for over a month which gave them squatter's rights and stopped paying. Without the income from renting the house they couldn't afford paying rent and mortgage and ended in foreclosure.

You rent through Airbnb for 11k? HOW THE HELL?

I went thru every background check imaginable to get into my apt., paying all fees, security, etc etc to move into that building. They turned some of the apts into ABB rentals after a few years. Within 2 years our clean, civil, quiet, secure building was a mess. The exercise facilities, the meeting/computer area had to be closed due to repeated theft. The trash rooms were filled with vomit, broken glass, used condoms and smelled rank when walking past them. It felt strange that I had to undergo such an extreme background check, when ABB was renting to anyone with a credit card.

Hikacked the pictures and we're trying to rent it? Maybe its just MY bad grammer, but what the heck does that mean.

AirBnB is notorious for starting lawsuits against municipalities if they start collecting tourist tax or something similar. They really think, like most American businesses, that they can use the same legal tactics in other countries to bend laws in ways that suits them best.

Have a 🌷for spring no hate comments down there

Why would AirBnB check if you are scammed? They still get their commission from the scammer and hide behind a wall of silence. It's not in their interest if they proactively check if people are scammers. It costs time, someone has to be paid to do it and in the end they miss out on their percentage of the profits that the scammers make.

That’s just a generic clone scam, I get several emails a day alleging to be from genuine providers I use and ones I’ve never used. They work because a large number of people have accounts and saying they’ll be restricted or some other issue in an email with the right logos gets many to unthinkingly click and then “confirm” all their ID and credit card details.

From experience, these scoundrels represent themselves as professionals, rich, or important people who are caught up in events where they can't meet you and want the money up front. They will up the timetable if they come to know you are desperate.

Guess who got their full commission?

This is unfortunately a very common scam that isn't limited to Airbnb or the US and nearly happened to me. Never ever pay a cent before (in the very least) seeing the property and if possible having the keys in your hands.

Why did it take me so long to figure out that GAS meant “give a s**t?”

I hate those useless ants! They could at least do the dishes!

Defeat the enemy with their own weapons and report them for illegally renting out their loft and every code violation you can think of. The couple will lose the battle if all neighbors collaborate to have them evicted.

ABNB needs to be fined a large amount for false listings beginning with the day it's listed. You can bet they'll begin verifying all listings real quick when they have to start paying out millions in fines and penalties on a daily basis. Personally, I think they should be put out of business and legislation passed governing any future attempts at creating a replacement.

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Ive never had anything but great experiences with AirBnB. Scratch that… I had one bad experience with a HOST and the place… and had to leave (lace was filthy and not as advertised) and I had excellent customer service with follow up and everything. I insisted… INSISTED n a full refund, and I got it. I’m staying at an Airbnb right now. AirBnB s the best… I travel a lot and nowhere else can I get a great place to stay with kitchen etc… for anywhere from $50 to $80 a night. I wont stay in hotels anymore. It has taken practice for me to learn exactly what to look for that works for me, but now it’s a breeze and I have had amazing stays all over the country….

If your lease has a sublet clause, you have recourse.

I really wish people were better writers... I don't understand which party you were in this. There are many missing pieces of info too. I know Twitter caps the # of characters but surely there is a better way to write this. In half of these posts, people don't write clearly enough and it leaves the reader with questions! For example, I hate when people say "I was renting my apartment" when they really mean they were renting OUT their apartment to someone else. So much confusion!

This happened quite a lot even before Airbnb started. There were numerous reports of British holidaymakers booking a villa on the continent - usually Spain or Greece and when they turned up the property didn't even exist. They either had to change their flights to get home or pay for hotels. The Internet makes it so easy to scam people.

Um. Why do they have their door unlocked in the middle of the night? And if this happened more than once, why would you continuously keep your door unlocked in the middle of the night?

You are probably lucky you can't rent anymore judging from all those horror stories.

Report it to section 8. This is stealing.

the lies about the cat are the worst part! >:[

People need to get together and have a class action suit against them!