Posted on 09/08/2024 6:18:51 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A single mom in Durham, N.C. is finally getting her home back after squatters took it over.
Two people booked Farzana Rahman's two-bed, two-bath property via Airbnb for seven months. They then refused to leave when their stay was up in May 2024, claiming they're "legal residents" of the home.
Rahman ended up taking them to court to get her property back. But after they didn't show up to the hearing, the judge sided with Rahman and issued an eviction order. The Durham Sheriff's County Office served it to the guests on July 3, 2024.
Rahman changed the locks and hopes this ordeal is over, according to an update from ABC 11/WTVD.
“This is my place. I’m counting on this income. My son is in college [and] I’m a single parent,” Rahman told ABC11/WTVD before the hearing. She added that the eviction process was “wasting my time, it’s wasting my energy [and] it’s stressing me out.”
"No one should have to go through this. You would expect that people would understand rules and follow them, but it's just not the case in this instance," Rahman's assistant Jane Miller told the television station.....
Her guests paid what they owed through the Airbnb platform, but when her cleaner went to the property after the checkout time, the couple had not moved out and they told the cleaner not to return. When Rahman visited the property the next day with the police, she found a hand-written note stuck to the front door.
It read: “No trespassing. We will vacate the property when you have filed the proper paperwork with the civil magistrate for an eviction for we are legal residents of this home. If you try to enter, we will press charges for violation of expectation of privacy.”
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That’s tough (maybe impossible) to do unless the utilities are in your name. Putting the utilities in your name carries other risk.
I lived in a large complex — each unit paid its own electric but water was split among the tenants. So it might work for a large complex.
Good points. Thanks.
If it is a private home only used for short term rentals such as an AirBNB the utilities likely would remain in the owner’s name. For longer rentals it does make more sense to have the tenant responsible for their own utility bills.
PS. It would be verboten if done to get the tenant (lazy bums) out. However if it is right there in the agreement I think it would pass muster. Provided the reason is to not have them on for a vacant property.
If that would be legally enforceable.
Maybe digital locks with the entry code that can be reprogrammed remotely. They’d just break the window or the lock itself somehow most likely.
Invest in REITs.
Obviously you do, since you were annoyed enough to respond...
Well, you well and truly got me there. Have a blessed evening.
And the lawyer’s locksmith.
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