Fairbnb News, Horror Stories
August 29, 2024
London Free Press, August 29, 2024 The couple couldn’t understand why their Airbnb host was so adamant he get back the “very important” cellphone charging cube they had mistakenly taken from a London home. After a series of calls and text messages over four days that began 20 minutes after they checked out and became ever […]
Fairbnb News, Horror Stories
August 26, 2024
Planetizen, August 26, 2024 A San Francisco Superior Court judge has overruled Airbnb’s request to dismiss a case brought against it by the parents of a teen who died in August 2021 after being shot at a party held in a Sunnyvale, California, home rented on Airbnb. According to an article from ACCESSWIRE, the case […]
Fairbnb News, Horror Stories
July 22, 2024
Prosecutors said Bicher operated at least 18 Manhattan apartments as “mini-hotels” while using the pandemic as an excuse not to pay landlords more than $1 million in rent from 2019 to April 2022. They said he also got government-guaranteed loans through a program meant to provide relief to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fairbnb News, Horror Stories, Uncategorized
July 9, 2024
An Airbnb representative testifying at a court-ordered deposition early last year offered a rare glimpse of the company’s hidden camera problem: Airbnb has generated tens of thousands of customer support tickets related to surveillance devices in the last decade.
Fairbnb News, Featured Story, Horror Stories
May 12, 2024
Long’s lengthy battle with his former landlord — a self-described community advocate who has positioned himself as an anti-homelessness leader — has been an uneven fight, one similar to that faced by many Ontario tenants. A series of hurdles can make it nearly impossible for tenants to get anything resembling justice, and even three years after Long’s victory he’s still waiting for the money he’s owed.
Fairbnb News, Horror Stories
April 4, 2024
Last year, a massive blaze consumed several illegal Airbnb units in Montreal and killed seven people. The tragedy shone a harsh light on the Wild West of Airbnb in Canadian cities—and the battle to regulate it has just begun.
Fairbnb News, Horror Stories
February 7, 2024
An Airbnb owner west of Edmonton estimates she’s out more than $200,000 after her property was ransacked during a booking.
The morning of Jan. 21, Jocelyn St. Onge got a strange text from a neighbour. He told her the hood of her truck at her property outside the lake town Wabamun was raised.
That Sunday, two guests who had been renting her acreage for one week were scheduled to check out.
Fairbnb News, Featured Story, Horror Stories, Housing Issues
January 9, 2024
As Toronto tries to clamp down on short-term rentals to maximize housing supply in the midst of a housing crisis, a cottage industry of short-term rental hosting companies continue to help investment property owners evade the city’s rules, a Star investigation has found.
Horror Stories, Uncategorized
August 21, 2020
Airbnb’s announcement on Thursday that the company will impose an indefinite global ban on all parties and events at properties booked through the online platform was met with skepticism by Toronto residents who have been fighting for years for tighter controls.
Horror Stories
February 3, 2020
A Toronto city councillor is urging short-term rental operators to delist “ghost-hotels” while shaken residents of a condominium building where three died by gunfire say more must be done to ensure their safety.