Otherwise, as Michelle Huang and her boyfriend Thomas Payne found out, things can get awkward.
They claim Sandeep Andre Hingorani, who owns different apartments in their block of flats, moved into their rental home using a fake name ‘Jim Tako’ in 2012.
He stayed there for ten months until the couple turned off the electricity to evict him, it was reported.
The couple has filed a complaint in San Francisco Superior Court.
Their neighbour stayed in the flat for around ten months, along with his mother and friend Piper D, it was reported.
In their court statement against Hingorani
and his associates for fraud, tespassing and ejectment, the couple said
the AirBnB tenants tried to cause ‘severe emotional distress’.
‘In particular, defendant Sandeep stated
that he intended to drive plaintiffs from their property and to ‘inflict
maximum pain” upon them,’ the complaint said.
But Hingorani himself accused the couple
of harassment and creating an unsafe living environment by doing major
construction without permits.
He said the couple was trying to force him
out of the entire building and said he needed a convenient place to
stay while work was being carried out on his own place.
The court heard the neighbours had squabbled over building repairs and finances.
Hingorani described the couple as bullies
who are difficult to do business with, but said he does not hold a
grudge against them, according to MailOnline.
He claimed the couple had a ‘stream’ of
Airbnb customers before he moved in, causing hassle with noise and
taking up parking spaces.
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