Post by High Priestess on Feb 15, 2016 17:09:30 GMT
Here's one of the strangest squatter stories ever: the neighbor of a couple of Airbnb hosts, upset about their Airbnb renting, decided to get back at them by booking their home under a pseudonym, and then refusing to leave!
metro.co.uk/2016/02/15/man-rents-airbnb-from-neighbour-under-false-name-during-ongoing-feud-refuses-to-leave-5682350/
and
www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-renter-fooled-neighbor-refused-to-leave-2016-2
As the article states:
WHat I found so odd about this story, was that the Airbnb host couple, apparently let their neighbor into their home as a guest, without knowing they had done so. Didn't they meet the guest in person? Seems to me one of the most important take aways from this tale, is the warning to always meet your arriving guests in person, to make sure they aren't really your next door neighbor!
metro.co.uk/2016/02/15/man-rents-airbnb-from-neighbour-under-false-name-during-ongoing-feud-refuses-to-leave-5682350/
and
www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-renter-fooled-neighbor-refused-to-leave-2016-2
As the article states:
If you ever rent out property on Airbnb, try and make sure the customer isn’t actually the neighbour you have beef with.
Otherwise, as Michelle Huang and her boyfriend Thomas Payne found out, things can get awkward.
They claim Sandeep Andre Hingorani, who owns different apartments in their block of flats, moved into their rental home using a fake name ‘Jim Tako’ in 2012. The couple has filed a complaint in San Francisco Superior Court.
He stayed there for ten months until the couple turned off the electricity to evict him, it was reported.
Their neighbour stayed in the flat for around ten months, along with his mother and friend Piper D, it was reported.
In their court statement against Hingorani and his associates for fraud, tespassing and ejectment, the couple said the Airbnb tenants tried to cause ‘severe emotional distress’.
‘In particular, defendant Sandeep stated that he intended to drive plaintiffs from their property and to ‘inflict maximum pain” upon them,’ the complaint said.
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Otherwise, as Michelle Huang and her boyfriend Thomas Payne found out, things can get awkward.
They claim Sandeep Andre Hingorani, who owns different apartments in their block of flats, moved into their rental home using a fake name ‘Jim Tako’ in 2012. The couple has filed a complaint in San Francisco Superior Court.
He stayed there for ten months until the couple turned off the electricity to evict him, it was reported.
Their neighbour stayed in the flat for around ten months, along with his mother and friend Piper D, it was reported.
In their court statement against Hingorani and his associates for fraud, tespassing and ejectment, the couple said the Airbnb tenants tried to cause ‘severe emotional distress’.
‘In particular, defendant Sandeep stated that he intended to drive plaintiffs from their property and to ‘inflict maximum pain” upon them,’ the complaint said.
....
WHat I found so odd about this story, was that the Airbnb host couple, apparently let their neighbor into their home as a guest, without knowing they had done so. Didn't they meet the guest in person? Seems to me one of the most important take aways from this tale, is the warning to always meet your arriving guests in person, to make sure they aren't really your next door neighbor!