Can I Sue Airbnb For Negligence?
I am a homeowner in Los Angeles. My tenant is illegally listing my home on Airbnb. This is both a breach of our lease agreement (am currently trying to evict) and illegal in Los Angeles since he is renting out a home that falls under LA’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance. It is illegal under all circumstances to list RSO homes for short term rental.
LA requires hosts to register homes that are listed on Airbnb. The tenant has been listing the home unregistered. He has been hiding his activity by listing random addresses and then messaging guests the true address right before check-in.
I have sent multiple complaints to Airbnb requesting that they remove the host and listings. Baiting and switching addresses is against their host standards yet they don’t enforce any consequences for this behavior. I have booked my own home and sent proof that he swaps addresses last minute. There are also many reviews complaining about this practice.
Can I sue Airbnb for negligence and property damage? I have been in eviction proceedings for 2 months and Airbnb continues to allow my home to be booked.
Airbnb continues to make money off my property and should have flagged this host months ago for swapping addresses, and have protocols to flag address swaps in host-guest messages. And even more egregiously, continuing to allow this behavior after I have raised the issue to customer support and sent supporting legal documents including cease and desist letters, proof of ownership, etc.
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