Guests refuse to leave Airbnb host's house

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/23/travel/airbnb-squatters/index.html

by d0ne • 12 years ago

24 5 12 years ago

chrisgd• 12 years ago

Hopefully AirBNB will add some sort of disclaimer or inform owners about each state's renting laws. And hopefully someone listing their property will investigate this as well before doing it.

Understand that the lister took a risk, but this is absurd.

_delirium2• 12 years ago

Yeah, these kinds of things are somewhat well known among people who do vacation rental, but many AirBnB people are new to it. It's not strictly AirBnB's responsibility to help out, but maybe they could provide some pointers to common pitfalls. Almost all jurisdictions have some way of distinguishing "vacation rental" or "transient accommodation" from "long-term rental" and the difference is often important (30 days is a common cutoff). Also, if a rental is explicitly fixed-term and both sides agree to that, it's usually better to get that agreement in a written contract.

Also doing things like cutting off power/water/whatever is rarely a good idea. Just get the person legally evicted, don't harass them. That'd even be true if it were transient accommodation: if you refuse to leave your hotel room, the hotel will just call the cops and get you officially booted for trespassing, not resort to roundabout methods to smoke you out.

_delirium2• 12 years ago

Was wondering why this is getting flagged off the front page, and hitting the search I see it was already much discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8058247

mixologic• 12 years ago

Heh. If her electricity bill is so high I wonder if they're mining bitcoin or the like?

dustcoin• 12 years ago

According to another article, http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Squatters-don-t-sit... , it is suspected that the squatter is intentionally running the AC full blast with the windows open.

Guests refuse to leave Airbnb host's house

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