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A Toronto landlord is suing her former tenant, the tenant’s boyfriend, the City of Toronto and Airbnb, after her downtown condominium was rented out on the short-term rental platform for months without her knowledge or consent.

The statement of claim, filed on behalf of Allison Rasquinha in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on June 22, says Michele Nicole Carter and Jose Cornejo Kelly registered Rasquinha’s studio condo on Adelaide Street West with the city for short-term rental without authorization and rented it out dozens of times on Airbnb in violation of the condo corporation’s rules.

It accuses Airbnb and the city of facilitating the registration and rental of the unit, claiming both neglected their responsibility to verify whether Carter and Cornejo Kelly had the legal right to rent out the property on a short-term basis.

“[My condo] is my most valuable possession. It’s near and dear to my heart,” Rasquinha said in an interview with CBC.

“It’s a terrible feeling to see something you love being weaponized for profit and gain that you weren’t even aware of.”

The lawsuit seeks $1.6 million in damages from the four defendants for financial losses and mental anguish, among other harms. The allegations

(Bloomberg) — The two-story brick house in Flushing, New York, is a million-dollar home, but perhaps not in the way the owner intended.

Just off of Main Street in a residential neighborhood in Queens, not far from a car wash, a pharmacy and a T-Mobile store, the home has old newspapers on the door partially obscuring a yellowing notice from New York City’s Department of Buildings and a sign warning that security cameras are watching.

According to public records, the house has been used as an illegal Airbnb rental property and people have been living in the attic and basement. It has been on the city’s radar for years, accumulating violations, complaints from neighbors and an order to vacate a portion of the house that was illegally occupied, the city’s filings show. In 2021 alone, the homeowner racked up $984,000 in defaulted penalties, none of which have been paid, a Bloomberg calculation based on city records shows. The same filings show it accumulated more fines than almost any other illegal Airbnb property in 2021, the latest year of data available, by a large margin, accounting for about 11% of all fines issued for the entire year.

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