Posted on 11/28/2018 7:01:41 PM PST by lowbridge
"When I stepped in, there were about 12 people partying in my place. Total strangers. Nobody who I had ever seen before," Adam Mongrain told CBC Montreal on Wednesday.
"It was completely surreal to step into my home and find people I don't know there. I didn't know what to do."
He asked the first person he locked eyes with for an explanation. Mongrain was told the group had reserved the apartment through Booking.com, a website that allows users to find deals on hotels and short-term rentals.
While an apartment on the building's lower level is available for short-term rental and managed by the landlord, Mongrain's is not. He explained this to the unwanted guests and told them to leave.
They didn't argue or question the order to get out. They simply gathered their coats and began leaving in an unhurried, orderly fashion, he said.
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Mongrain said he and his wife returned home around 2 a.m. on Nov. 10 when they found their apartment filled not just with people, but with marijuana and tobacco smoke in a usually smoke-free home.
There was also the smell of cooking food in the air as a man was busy at the stove.
"It's been two weeks and it still doesn't make sense whenever I think about it because they had ordered pizza that they didn't touch," Mongrain said. "It was still intact when we walked in and one of the men was cooking macaroni."
The people were hanging out, laughing and joking, enjoying all the snacks and alcohol they could find in Mongrain's place — all laid out on the living room table.
"It's hard to convey the extent to which the place was trashed," he said.
Laptops, babysitting money, passports stolen
In total, two laptops, two passports and jewellery were stolen, according to Mongrain, as was clothing, perfume, watches and booze.
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you just tell them to leave?
I would have gotten the police involved
that could be... AWKWARD
Music for one apartment and six drummers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQddk3zN3zQ
Who had the keys to it?
Why didn't he call the police?
This story doesn't make much sense.
I would think a lawyer is appropriate, because someone had to have let them in.
THIS is exactly why I am dead set against AirBnb and all similar companies. It is totally unfair to other building tenants or house neighbors to have totally unsupervised strangers having access to an adjacent apartment or house. These Airbnb etc. clients have no stake in the apartment, the building, or the neighborhood, trashing the place and disturbing others with noise. These permanent residents have a commitment to live peacefully and considerately with neighbors, so they behave in a responsible fashion. One night or short term renters through Airbnb etc. have no such social inhibition. For them, it's a big free for all. They think their rental entitles them to trash the place and not show any responsibility toward it or its contents.
A POX on Airbnb and all similar companies, encouraging bestial irresponsible behavior.
Around the world there are “uberlyftetc” fake-taxis and “airbnb” fake-hotels.
The restrictions to entry into the marketplace for legit taxis and hotels should be lifted and excessive taxes and fees that are being billed to customers of “one but not the ‘other new thing’” should be done away with (or billed across the board).
How on earth do you not immediately call the cops with 911 or the Montreal equivalent, calling in a home invasion. Then nothing that was stolen would have left the apartment. The landlord is talking baloney. They probably have a secret key with which they let in the partiers. I would have gone absolutely nuts if I came home and found strangers in my home, trashing it. Is telling them to leave without calling the police the libtard way of handling such an outrageous situation?
(Although this story doesn't match the song, for some reason this story reminded me of this old song on youtube...)
Need to hire private security as well since police are not expected to protect the public...
Now they know how we feel about our southern border...
Because they are both French and Canadian. That’s a double dose of wuss.
Not everyone uses keys.
“......unsupervised strangers having access.....”
Who exactly “supervises” anyone in your neighborhood? Or anywhere else.
Control. I must have control.........
By this, I meant that the landlord wasn't checking up on the trashing of the place, the larceny, or anything else.
Are you suggesting that the partiers broke in?
"Unfair?" That's your argument? I can rent my apartment out to whomever I want.
These Airbnb etc. clients have no stake in the apartment, the building, or the neighborhood, trashing the place and disturbing others with noise.
If they commit any crimes, then call the cops. Otherwise, MYOB.
These permanent residents have a commitment to live peacefully and considerately with neighbors [...]
Even long-term residents can be a pain in the *ss.
HOWEVER, if the area is zones as purely "residential," then operating a hostlery should be classified as "commercial," and hence prohibited there.
Regards,
it was a home invasion. No “hotel” or “hostel” or “airBnB” permits you to drink the host’s alcohol for free.
>>The landlord is talking baloney. They probably have a secret key with which they let in the partiers. I would have gone absolutely nuts if I came home and found strangers in my home, trashing it.
http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheSecretary.html
(looking towards the theater door, Jerry notices one of the movie goers)
Jerry: Hey, isn’t that Willie, my dry-cleaner?
Elaine: Where?
Jerry: He just went in. You know, I think he was wearing my Hounds-Tooth jacket.
Elaine: What would he be doing wearing your jacket?
Jerry: It looked just like the jacket I brought in to be dry-cleaned. He complimented me on it.
Elaine: Are you sure?
...
(Jerry picks up several items of clothing from the booth, in their dry-cleaning bags — He is wearing his Hounds-Tooth jacket. George and Jerry walk over to the cash register to pay for lunch. At the register, Jerry reaches into his Hounds-Tooth jacket pocket, he pulls out a movie
stub)
Jerry: Oh, My god.
George: What?
Jerry: It’s a movie stub from the 9:30 show. George, I think Willie the dry-cleaner has been wearing my clothes.
...
New scene.
Exterior shot of the Dry Cleaners store front, then to the interior —
Jerry enters as a female customer is leaving the counter with her dry-cleaning .
Jerry: Hello, Willie.
Willie: Hey, Jerry. You dropping off?
Jerry: No, but ah, seen any good movies lately?
Willie: You came by to ask that?
Jerry: Yeah. Specifically 9:30 shows. Seen any good 9:30 shows at the Paragon, Willie?
Willie: What are you gettin at?
Jerry: I saw you the other night stepping out with my Hounds-Tooth jacket.
Willie: Jerry that’s a breach of the dry-cleaner’s code.
Jerry: You need a code to tell you not to wear peoples’ clothes
Willie: I wasn’t wearing your jacket. Jerry you’re imagining things. (he makes the circular motion next to his ears - the international symbol for “insane”)
Jerry: Yeahhh, am I imagining this? (he whips out the movie stub and holds it up to Willie) Found this little cutie in the pocket. (throws the stub on the counter)
Willie: Jerry.
Jerry: Yeah, Yeah. Well, now that we understand each other — I’ll be taking my business elsewhere. And I want my mother’s fur coat back too.
Willie: Jerry, come on.
Jerry: Now.
Willie: Now? (Willie looks off with his eyes to his left — he is thinking about his wife Donna)
(Shot of Donna wearing the fur coat, standing at a hot dog stand, eating a hot dog)
Jerry: Yeah. I want that coat. (Jerry opens his wallet, looking for the dry-cleaning ticket)
Willie: Well ... ahh. (apprehensively)
Jerry: Where’s that ticket? Oh, Kramer.
Willie: Wait, you, you mean to tell me you don’t have a ticket for the coat?
Jerry: No, not on me.
Willie: Well, I, I need to see that ticket.
Jerry: Why? I’ve got my cleaning before without a ticket.
Willie: Yeah, but this is different. Those fur storage warehouses are huge. You can’t, get anything without a number.
Jerry: All right, I’ll be back...
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