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Just change the locks and put an alarm up. Airbnb has already proven over and over if you watch the news they are not an honorable company. Be very pro active. Do not go and travel, please.
I am an airbnb host. It should be easy to get out of this. Call Airbnb and talk to the customer service. You should be able to cancel all the bookings as of the date of your closing.
There is nothing they (the seller and the friend) can do. You dont have a profile on airbnb you have nothing to lose.
In your place I'd call Airb and explain the situation. They will cancel the reservations for you and reach out to whomever is listed as the host (or co-host if it's in the name of a friend) and tell them NOT to advertise it anymore.
The seller and her friend think they can get away with it. Tell them to their face that you spoke with Airbnb and they said they will cancel the reservations after the closing. Tell them to not advertise past that date. They can mark it blocked in their calendar, it is easy to do it.
Just change the locks and put an alarm up. Airbnb has already proven over and over if you watch the news they are not an honorable company. Be very pro active. Do not go and travel, please.
Really? So screw those vacationers who have reserved the home rather than contacting Airbnb and having them contact the vacationers. That's seriously a mean and nasty thing to do.
The second the property changes hands any income derived from it goes to the new owner. The other individual is just trying to make a few bucks.
I'm not experienced with Airbnb so I've never seen their contract. But their contract is with the host, not the OP. So I don't see how OP would get the money unless the host voluntarily hands it over. And personally, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
I agree with contacting airbnb, telling them the situation and seeing what they suggest.
I found the perfect house and have a contract to buy it. but some confusing
issues have come up regarding airbnb bookings.
Before we had a contract I was told that it had rental agreements in place for
about 4 weeks in the 2 months after my closing. I was told that because of NC Vacation
Rental Act I had to honor those rental agreements. So I agreed thinking I had no choice.
I was going to use the weeks to travel.
Then we discovered that the "property manager" was a friend of the owners that lives there when it is not rented and that the rentals were done through airbnb. (in fact she is still advertising but that is a whole other story)
Airbnb says that the rental agreement is done with a host ( not a house) and cannot be transfered to me and should be canceled if the house sold.
I would prefer to get out of all of the booked rentals, zero interest in having strangers staying in my new house if I can avoid it.
Does anyone have experience or advice with this ?
My realtor is working on it, but I am also researching my situation.
When I read this title I thought you wanted to buy a house with such guests.
What I would have said is strangers do not respect things and may break things. I think that they may be responsible though same as if they throw up in a car while riding Uber.
Anyway I wouldn't honor it if I didn't want to. There should be enough time for the person who listed it to cancel.
Summer is peak rental season especially if you are in a great area or near the beach, why have someone make money on your dime. They should not sell it until they were ready to.
I am an airbnb host. It should be easy to get out of this. Call Airbnb and talk to the customer service. You should be able to cancel all the bookings as of the date of your closing.
There is nothing they (the seller and the friend) can do. You dont have a profile on airbnb you have nothing to lose.
In your place I'd call Airb and explain the situation. They will cancel the reservations for you and reach out to whomever is listed as the host (or co-host if it's in the name of a friend) and tell them NOT to advertise it anymore.
The seller and her friend think they can get away with it. Tell them to their face that you spoke with Airbnb and they said they will cancel the reservations after the closing. Tell them to not advertise past that date. They can mark it blocked in their calendar, it is easy to do it.
Exactly the only one who loses if the OP honors it is themselves and the only one who can lose if you tell them no is the AirBNB host who may get negative reviews.
OP: it seems that you're not even getting the money from these bookings as they were made with the current/soon to be former? LL. In that case--even if you wanted to honor the bookings as a potential way of making a little cash--I'd follow the advice of other posters on how to get out of this mess. No strangers are staying in my home for free!
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