Post by High Priestess on Dec 12, 2015 16:31:02 GMT
This article gives an example of some very bad hosts --
therealdeal.com/blog/2015/12/11/sharing-but-not-caring-queens-landlord-discovers-airbnb-the-hard-way/
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/12/11/nyc-airbnb-apartment-hostel/77144758/
www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a51290/airbnb-scam/
see the video:
These New York City tenants decided to be Airbnb hosts, but without their landlords' permission. But that is common enough -- many tenants do that, and risk eviction in the process. These bad tenants went further. They remodeled someone's property without the property owner's permission, constructing walls inside their rented apartment, so that they could squeeze in more guests. The landlord, understandably infuriated on all counts, did an illegal DIY eviction (something that I believe should be legal in such egregious cases as this!!) and locked the tenants out. THe bad tenants went to court and got a judgement from the judge saying the landlord had to let them back in. Once back in, they immediately began again doing illegal subletting and Airbnb hosting again.
Any court system that allows such a thing to happen is seriously broken.
Excerpt:
After signing a lease with two tenants for $2,500 a month, Eddie Shiew got a call from another one of his tenants on the first floor – notifying him that it appeared there was construction work going on upstairs.
“I went in the next day and found they had turned a three-bedroom into a 10—bedroom apartment,” Shiew told PIX11.
The tenants, Burak Firik and Dogan Kimilli, were renovating the home without Shiew’s knowledge, with a construction crew using sheetrock to divide each bedroom on the third floor into three smaller bedrooms.
The landlord then discovered that the tenants were listing the rooms on Airbnb – with tourists paying $35 a night for one of the small rooms on the renovated third floor.
Shiew put an end to all that, of course – bringing in workmen to tear down the renovations before kicking out Firik and Kimilli and changing the locks on the doors.
But it didn’t end there, with the tenants taking the landlord to court – and winning a judgment saying Shiew illegally locked them out. He was ordered to let the two men back into the unit.
Firik and Kimilli continue to create space to rent on Airbnb using curtains as room dividers, PIX11 reports. Shiew, meanwhile, has hired an attorney in an attempt to evict them for violating the terms of their lease."
therealdeal.com/blog/2015/12/11/sharing-but-not-caring-queens-landlord-discovers-airbnb-the-hard-way/
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/12/11/nyc-airbnb-apartment-hostel/77144758/
www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a51290/airbnb-scam/
see the video:
These New York City tenants decided to be Airbnb hosts, but without their landlords' permission. But that is common enough -- many tenants do that, and risk eviction in the process. These bad tenants went further. They remodeled someone's property without the property owner's permission, constructing walls inside their rented apartment, so that they could squeeze in more guests. The landlord, understandably infuriated on all counts, did an illegal DIY eviction (something that I believe should be legal in such egregious cases as this!!) and locked the tenants out. THe bad tenants went to court and got a judgement from the judge saying the landlord had to let them back in. Once back in, they immediately began again doing illegal subletting and Airbnb hosting again.
Any court system that allows such a thing to happen is seriously broken.
Excerpt:
After signing a lease with two tenants for $2,500 a month, Eddie Shiew got a call from another one of his tenants on the first floor – notifying him that it appeared there was construction work going on upstairs.
“I went in the next day and found they had turned a three-bedroom into a 10—bedroom apartment,” Shiew told PIX11.
The tenants, Burak Firik and Dogan Kimilli, were renovating the home without Shiew’s knowledge, with a construction crew using sheetrock to divide each bedroom on the third floor into three smaller bedrooms.
The landlord then discovered that the tenants were listing the rooms on Airbnb – with tourists paying $35 a night for one of the small rooms on the renovated third floor.
Shiew put an end to all that, of course – bringing in workmen to tear down the renovations before kicking out Firik and Kimilli and changing the locks on the doors.
But it didn’t end there, with the tenants taking the landlord to court – and winning a judgment saying Shiew illegally locked them out. He was ordered to let the two men back into the unit.
Firik and Kimilli continue to create space to rent on Airbnb using curtains as room dividers, PIX11 reports. Shiew, meanwhile, has hired an attorney in an attempt to evict them for violating the terms of their lease."