• neo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    76·
    3 days ago

    But for Martiz, the experience has put her off ever renting out the property again.

    Sounds like they did good work, here.

  • Jew [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    82·
    3 days ago

    This is my favorite election season boogeyman so far. How do they know it was the supergang that partied there? House doesn’t even look that “trashed”. This shit happens in every city w Airbnb but this time it was a BLOODTHIRSTY SUPERGANG, which is a great band name btw

      • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        52·
        3 days ago

        Literally. A bunch of friends and I rented a summerhouse for a week for what was basically a week-long bender. We had to pay about 650$ upfront for a non-optional “cleaning fee” that wasn’t included in the price of the house. I say up front, but it wasn’t. It was a real shady procedure, but we didn’t complain because we booked it last minute due to a natural disaster destroying the familial home of a friend of a friend, which was where we were supposed to go, and besides the place was about 500$ cheaper than all like places, so we only ended getting scammed for 150$ (enbie math)

        We didn’t trash the place, but we also didn’t take any special effort not to make it dirty. Especially not with that outrageous fee, it made us assume they had professional cleaners or something. On the day of check-out a single elderly lady shows up to clean. It’s obvious it’s a sidegig for her to pay her bills, she couldn’t even lift chairs. I don’t know what the fuck they were thinking. I don’t think she got paid more than 80-100$ either.
        We do as much as we can to help her before our transport picks us up, but… We were 12 people being drunk af for a week and she had arthritis. She told us someone was coming to help her, but I doubt it. I think she probably cleaned for an hour and left, I imagine that was the deal she had with the landlord who owned 7 houses on that road. Ghoul.

        We then got a followup letter complaining about how dirty we left the place. They also tried to charge us for stuff like a dirty toaster (which we cleaned both before we used it and after we left because it was nasty) and other similar stuff that had just been broken for years probably. Luckily one of us on the trip was studying law, but like, the fucking audacity.
        We ended up sending a letter detailing how shitty the house was beforehand and then explaining (as if to a baby, I did the writing, so I made sure it was sassy as shit) that if you charge a cleaning fee - especially one so damn high - then you can’t complain about the place being dirty.

        • Bloobish [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          37·
          3 days ago

          We ended up sending a letter detailing how shitty the house was beforehand and then explaining (as if to a baby, I did the writing, so I made sure it was sassy as shit) that if you charge a cleaning fee - especially one so damn high - then you can’t complain about the place being dirty.

          Landlords and not wanting to actually make use of the BS cleaning fees they charge for, a tale as old as time.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      30·
      3 days ago

      This is the exact kind of thing my mom would call me about and say to watch out for she saw it on the news and I’d point out these kinds of holes and she’d just become a deer in headlights and be like “well the news says it’s dangerous I’d rather be wrong than right” lol

  • Absolute@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    65·
    3 days ago

    My coffee table is messier than that right now and I spent all last two days playing the wind waker and eating pie.

  • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    69·
    3 days ago

    At my college it is literally a tradition for fraternities to rent out an airbnb at the beach over spring break and trash it.

    Damages were in the $10,000+ range from a specific fraternity last year IIRC.

    But of course don’t write news stories about white kids doing illegal shit

  • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    43·
    3 days ago

    Martiz said her suspicions were first raised when she heard multiple voices coming through on her Ring doorbell camera

    I hope she gets sued for insane privacy violations, too.

  • BioWarfarePosadist [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    48·
    3 days ago

    This is as nothing burger as it gets.

    Like the gum stuff was the worst thing, and I agree… Gang, even when screwing over landlords spitting out gum onto the ground is just unsanitary and gross.

    But that’s like local chat with the gals level news, not international news.

  • nothx [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    3 days ago

    This is so fucking funny! They are blaming it on the “Venezuelan gang”. Hahahahhahaha

    ‘We’re just trying to share our homes, make a decent living and just, you know, have a normal life.’

    Oh fuck off, being a land owner isn’t a job. Eat shit, Karen.

  • wombat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    29·
    3 days ago

    the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

  • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    3 days ago

    That is minor damage, lmao. Also this is not “stunning” compared to other properties in the area. Half of all Colorado vacation homes are designed for giant family reunions and having 16 people stay in an ugly, giant house. The only permanent damage was gum in the carpet. They just put chairs on tables, moved some furniture, left a frankly obscene amount of bottles, and didn’t put trash in a dumpster.