What the fuck is the manager of a leasing office of a luxury apartment building doing posting on r/LegalAdvice?
“Startup Robs Every Customer They Have for Thousands of Dollars Overnight”
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#12What the fuck is the manager of a leasing office of a luxury apartment building doing posting on r/LegalAdvice?
Asking for legal advice, obviously.
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#13What the fuck is the manager of a leasing office of a luxury apartment building doing posting on r/LegalAdvice?
Why shouldn’t they?
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#15What 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...
Twitter user complaining with a story that appears to match the Reddit description: https://mobile.twitter.com/aCUBEDtv/status/11127859103350415...
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#17Sounds 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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#18Do you have a deposit protection scheme like we have the the UK? Our refundable deposits don't sit with the landlord or letting agent, they go to a separate company. At the end they release the funds unless there is some sort of damage in which case they investigate and decide whats a fair payment to the landlord.
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#19"Lightspeed Venture Partners and Mucker Capital " guys might want to sort this out, the founder doesn't seem worried bout his rep but I'm sure those VCs are.
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#20What’s the rationale for not naming them here?