Post by High Priestess on Sept 5, 2017 2:37:29 GMT
See the Airhosts Forum thread here:
airhostsforum.com/t/eviction-notice-on-my-door-for-being-an-airbnb-host-legal-asst-needed/16858/8
What do you think? What would you say to this host?
I don't have empathy for this host, as he was renting multiple apartments solely to profit from them. As far as I am aware, this actually is no longer legal in Los Angeles. So the host is not only violating his rental agreement, he's violating the spirit of the city law, which is aimed to preserve entire units for long term tenants.
Also, while it's true that in California tenants have certain rights, if this host was renting out entire places rather than space in his own apartment, then he was not actually a tenant of any of the places he rented, and so he would have no "tenant's rights" therein. For that reason, it would be relatively easy to evict him even in a city with strong rent control and eviction control laws.
I think people who do what he is doing are hypocrites -- they are asking their own guests (subletters) to follow their house rules that the guests freely agreed to (if they didn't agree they were free to go elsewhere), but they themselves are violating the rental agreement they freely signed onto (eg they did not sign under duress -- the contract they signed was mutually entered into). Most all rental agreements prohibit subletting -- and all the more so in these days where landlords know about Airbnb.
Finally I find it annoying when people knowingly violate their rental agreements and then try to fight the ensuing eviction. I'd say Just move out, for goshsakes, but in this case, this person probably never even moved in -- they just rented a place to turn around and rent it again. So being evicted is not, in this case, really being evicted. It's just the end of their profiteering on someone else's property. If you want to rent out whole apartments or homes, or do subletting when your landlord doesn't allow it, then buy property to rent out, don't violate rental agreements and illegally rent out someone else's stuff.
Trying to fight it is just wasting the time and money of people who are in the right and are justified in their action. Besides that, if you move out when you get an eviction notice, then no eviction will go on your record. But if you fight and lose, you'll have an eviction on your record and this will be damning to your credit and your ability to find another place to rent.
airhostsforum.com/t/eviction-notice-on-my-door-for-being-an-airbnb-host-legal-asst-needed/16858/8
What do you think? What would you say to this host?
I don't have empathy for this host, as he was renting multiple apartments solely to profit from them. As far as I am aware, this actually is no longer legal in Los Angeles. So the host is not only violating his rental agreement, he's violating the spirit of the city law, which is aimed to preserve entire units for long term tenants.
Also, while it's true that in California tenants have certain rights, if this host was renting out entire places rather than space in his own apartment, then he was not actually a tenant of any of the places he rented, and so he would have no "tenant's rights" therein. For that reason, it would be relatively easy to evict him even in a city with strong rent control and eviction control laws.
I think people who do what he is doing are hypocrites -- they are asking their own guests (subletters) to follow their house rules that the guests freely agreed to (if they didn't agree they were free to go elsewhere), but they themselves are violating the rental agreement they freely signed onto (eg they did not sign under duress -- the contract they signed was mutually entered into). Most all rental agreements prohibit subletting -- and all the more so in these days where landlords know about Airbnb.
Finally I find it annoying when people knowingly violate their rental agreements and then try to fight the ensuing eviction. I'd say Just move out, for goshsakes, but in this case, this person probably never even moved in -- they just rented a place to turn around and rent it again. So being evicted is not, in this case, really being evicted. It's just the end of their profiteering on someone else's property. If you want to rent out whole apartments or homes, or do subletting when your landlord doesn't allow it, then buy property to rent out, don't violate rental agreements and illegally rent out someone else's stuff.
Trying to fight it is just wasting the time and money of people who are in the right and are justified in their action. Besides that, if you move out when you get an eviction notice, then no eviction will go on your record. But if you fight and lose, you'll have an eviction on your record and this will be damning to your credit and your ability to find another place to rent.