{"id":5125,"date":"2015-09-02T17:59:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2015-09-02T17:59:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:59:30","slug":"airbnb-nightmare-guy-comes-home-to-his-room-rented-out-by-roommate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/editorials\/airbnb-nightmare-guy-comes-home-to-his-room-rented-out-by-roommate\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb nightmare: Guy comes home to his room rented out by roommate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Airbnb, home owners can cash in on their real estate by renting out their apartments, spare bedrooms, and country homes to visiting tourists. Despite the strange intimacy of sleeping in a stranger\u2019s personal space (or having a stranger sleep in yours), Airbnb has proven to be an extremely popular way to find unique accommodations while traveling, or for property owners to make a buck. <\/p>\n

But what happens when a tenant, rather than the home owner, lists a home on Airbnb? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s exactly what happened to digital artist Robert Corwin, who splits his time between California and a condo in West Town in Chicago. While living in California, Corwin was in the habit of subletting a room in his Chicago apartment to cover his rent. <\/p>\n

Recently, when Corwin returned to his apartment, instead of finding the tenant who had sublet the space, he encountered a young couple he\u2019d never met before sleeping in his master bedroom, according to CBS Chicago<\/a>. There was a hookah on the dining room table, and his liquor stash was entirely depleted. The couple were tourists who said they had rented the room from Airbnb. <\/p>\n

“Your imagination goes crazy.”<\/h2>\n

Apparently, the man who was subletting Corwin\u2019s second bedroom had listed the apartment on Airbnb to make some extra cash, without Corwin\u2019s permission or knowledge. <\/p>\n

Says Corwin, \u201cyour imagination goes crazy. What\u2019s been going on? It could be everything from orgies to drugs.\u201d Unsurprisingly, Corwin ejected the renter from his property, and logged online to confirm that, indeed, his apartment had been listed on Airbnb behind his back. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Airbnb is simply a platform for people offering accommodations and travelers looking for them to find one another. <\/p>\n

The company does not take any responsibility for the accommodations themselves (and this could have happened through Craigslist or Facebook, for that matter). According to the company policy, they do \u201cnot own, operate, manage or control accommodations, nor do we verify private contract terms.\u201d <\/p>\n

Although the company says that they do not \u201carbitrate complaints from third parties,\u201d they have agreed to investigate Corwin\u2019s claims. <\/p>\n

#AirbnbBummer<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you imagine Airbnb being used on your home and opening the door to people in your bed and missing liquor? Grr!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337314,"featured_media":5127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","tag-airbnb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/surprise.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5130,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/5130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}