“Startup Robs Every Customer They Have for Thousands of Dollars Overnight”
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#2What is “the startup” in this case? What is preventing from disclosing the name of the business?
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#3Sounds like a hi tech version of a scam in my city where a guy rents an apartment (or just squats it) and then turns around and sublets it and stops paying rent to the actual owner. People actually living in the unit stuck holding the bag.
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#4What is “the startup” in this case? What is preventing from disclosing the name of the business?
Reddit's rules against giving out personal information, so thousands of Redditors don't bombard the startup with angry comments or worse.
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#5What is “the startup” in this case? What is preventing from disclosing the name of the business?
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/wiki/index#wiki_general... subreddit rules
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#6A venture-funded startup for putting up $1500 living room dividers that manages to run at a loss may be peak San Francisco.
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#7Sounds like a hi tech version of a scam in my city where a guy rents an apartment (or just squats it) and then turns around and sublets it and stops paying rent to the actual owner. People actually living in the unit stuck holding the bag.
Subletting is entirely legal is it not? And it’s not a free ticket to do whatever you want with the property either.
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#8What is “the startup” in this case? What is preventing from disclosing the name of the business?
Homeshare fits the description.[1] Not finding any other articles which mention this problem, though.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/homeshare-rents-luxury-apart...
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#9What is “the startup” in this case? What is preventing from disclosing the name of the business?
Googling the basic contours of this shows the company pretty quickly. There are users on Twitter sharing similar stories.
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#10Sounds like a hi tech version of a scam in my city where a guy rents an apartment (or just squats it) and then turns around and sublets it and stops paying rent to the actual owner. People actually living in the unit stuck holding the bag.
Subletting is entirely legal is it not? And it’s not a free ticket to do whatever you want with the property either.
> and stops paying rent to the actual owner
The idea is they take the sublessee's deposit and first rent payment, don't pay the owner the rent, and vanish. The sublessee has now payed deposit + rent but has nowhere to live (as the landlord is unpaid).