Post by High Priestess on Dec 9, 2015 16:12:44 GMT
Here is a blog post by a tenant who was evicted for Airbnbing his apartment out, in violation of his rental agreement:
www.fastcompany.com/1839465/how-airbnb-earned-me-20000-and-restraining-order-my-landlord
www.fastcompany.com/1840715/my-airbnb-biz-got-me-evicted-heres-what-i-learned
Excerpts:
"For a heady year, cash and friendly faces flowed into my apartment, paying my rent while I scraped together money to build a startup I had dreamed about for months. My apartment photographed well and tourists love Brooklyn; before long the two spare rooms in my place were grossing a thousand bucks over the cost of my rent on Airbnb. The future seemed so sweet and easy that another host in my building rented a second apartment around the block just to host Bnb’rs. We wondered if our landlords had any inkling of the margins.
The incentive of thousands of dollars compelled me to buy hotel-quality sheets, consider feng shui, and clean the shower. A girl from Australia arrived with a gift of Vegemite. A guy from Portland flew in to get some additions made to his full-body tattoo. A woman from San Francisco left a long thank-you note in very peculiar handwriting. I went to a New York Red Bulls game with a British guest, got a proper heckling lesson, and debated the appeal of Kate Middleton. In nine months, my Airbnb listings grossed me almost $20,000....On Monday, June 4, about 10 days before my cofounders and I planned to push our first product into the iTunes App Store, a stranger in a blue blazer served me with a restraining order filed by my landlord. "
"After court appearances, phone calls, and printer cartidges, the ink is dry on a settlement that has me vacating my apartment in 10 days, all because I turned to Airbnb instead of Craigslist to find roommates—and a chunk of income in the process. Given that Airbnb announced today that it had surpassed 10 millionin total bookings, I'm hardly alone in my thinking. Nevertheless, here's what I learned from being pushed out of my apartment for being an Airbnb host."
My two cents: since the primary motivation for my own decision to become an Airbnb host, is because of bad tenants/roommates that I had in my home, tenants and roommates who refused to follow the rules of the rental agreement that they had signed onto, I dont' have a whole lot of empathy for tenants who wilfully violate their rental agreements that say "no subletting" quite loud and clear. That said, I do feel that it is overly harsh of any landlord to move right away to evict a tenant who does Airbnb renting, unless that tenants' lease violation or their profiteering has been particularly egregious (in New York City there was a story of a tenant who not only illegally subletted her own apartment, but also other tenant's apartments, and made over $500,000 doing that). I think simply giving tenants a notice to "cure or quit" (eg stop subletting or face eviction if you continue) should be adequate.
www.fastcompany.com/1839465/how-airbnb-earned-me-20000-and-restraining-order-my-landlord
www.fastcompany.com/1840715/my-airbnb-biz-got-me-evicted-heres-what-i-learned
Excerpts:
"For a heady year, cash and friendly faces flowed into my apartment, paying my rent while I scraped together money to build a startup I had dreamed about for months. My apartment photographed well and tourists love Brooklyn; before long the two spare rooms in my place were grossing a thousand bucks over the cost of my rent on Airbnb. The future seemed so sweet and easy that another host in my building rented a second apartment around the block just to host Bnb’rs. We wondered if our landlords had any inkling of the margins.
The incentive of thousands of dollars compelled me to buy hotel-quality sheets, consider feng shui, and clean the shower. A girl from Australia arrived with a gift of Vegemite. A guy from Portland flew in to get some additions made to his full-body tattoo. A woman from San Francisco left a long thank-you note in very peculiar handwriting. I went to a New York Red Bulls game with a British guest, got a proper heckling lesson, and debated the appeal of Kate Middleton. In nine months, my Airbnb listings grossed me almost $20,000....On Monday, June 4, about 10 days before my cofounders and I planned to push our first product into the iTunes App Store, a stranger in a blue blazer served me with a restraining order filed by my landlord. "
"After court appearances, phone calls, and printer cartidges, the ink is dry on a settlement that has me vacating my apartment in 10 days, all because I turned to Airbnb instead of Craigslist to find roommates—and a chunk of income in the process. Given that Airbnb announced today that it had surpassed 10 millionin total bookings, I'm hardly alone in my thinking. Nevertheless, here's what I learned from being pushed out of my apartment for being an Airbnb host."
My two cents: since the primary motivation for my own decision to become an Airbnb host, is because of bad tenants/roommates that I had in my home, tenants and roommates who refused to follow the rules of the rental agreement that they had signed onto, I dont' have a whole lot of empathy for tenants who wilfully violate their rental agreements that say "no subletting" quite loud and clear. That said, I do feel that it is overly harsh of any landlord to move right away to evict a tenant who does Airbnb renting, unless that tenants' lease violation or their profiteering has been particularly egregious (in New York City there was a story of a tenant who not only illegally subletted her own apartment, but also other tenant's apartments, and made over $500,000 doing that). I think simply giving tenants a notice to "cure or quit" (eg stop subletting or face eviction if you continue) should be adequate.