Hi Guys
I recently had nightmare tenant he pretend to rent out my house on assured shorthold tenancy and claim he is single parent with one child. What I discovered back in March is in fact he is subletting since August 2023 on Airbnb and is running this as full time business opportunity and possibly never lived there for a day.
And now he has stopped paying rent since March 2024 and I finally manage to get the possession order from the court back in September 2024.
then he refused to 'move out' on the date of the possession order, meaning I will now need to get warrant from the court and then bailiff to take possession of the property that he is not even lived in. Because of the slow court system in the UK, it will take at least 20 weeks for this process. In the meantime I can see on Airbnb he is happily generating revenues and taking guests while I need to pay mortgages to my bank.
I have contact the Airbnb support to try to take down the listing with my possession order from the court, however Airbnb is refusing to help, I am not even asking Airbnb to be an arbitrator or verify private contract terms, I have present them with the orders from the court clearly stating that this tenant has to go by x date and the x date has passed.
I am running out of idea now, so this tenant gets to make one year worth of Airbnb listing revenue and not paying a penny to the landlord, and the landlord is subject to mortgage payment at the bank. how can this be fair? what's to stop him from doing the same tactics by just massively ramping up this loophole and exploit more landlords?
Airbnb is not going to do anything, he can simply earns crazy amount of money just by keep sign up to lots of properties and just simply don't pay any rent while keep earning from the platform. this is free money no?
