I don't know about you, but letting someone else live in my home via Airbnb gives me the heebie-jeebies. No thanks. It's just weird.
It's also a potential legal and logistical nightmaaaaare:
An Airbnb host had his $3.8million California mansion hijacked by a guest who refuses to leave after spending more than 540 days in the home unless she is paid $100,000.
Sascha Jovanovic rented the guesthouse of his Brentwood mansion out on Airbnb in September 2021 to Elizabeth Hirschhorn, and his guest has long overstayed her welcome and has refused to move out of the mansion.
So she stays in his $4 million mansion for a year and a half, and somehow he's the one who has to pay one hundred grand??
What possible justification could this lady have for demanding such a princely sum? Well, she claims that the house itself was never cleared for occupancy by a tenant, meaning the total amount she's already paid should be refunded (and then some, apparently).
Jovanovic, meanwhile, claims Hirschhorn refused to leave when he attempted to perform maintenance on the dwelling, leading to her occupying the house on an indefinite basis.
It's California, of course, so the homeowner can't really evict his "tenant" without good reason (California law holds that there's pretty much no good reason to evict your tenant.)
Los Angeles, meanwhile, also enforces a "Just Cause Ordinance" which mandates that landlords "have a legal reason to evict tenants." Apparently just occupying someone's home does not qualify!
I don't care if you own, if you rent, or if you're squatting in someone's Airbnb — if you live in California, get out!
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