I strongly recommend to avoid Mo at all costs. What was supposed to be a nice trip down to London with my close friends turned into an absolute disaster and ruined our whole weekend.
Everything seemed fine at first, Mo communicated well through the Airbnb app and we were looking forward to staying in the apartments.
However, on the morning of Saturday 21st September when we were travelling to London, Mo rang me directly to tell us the cleaner had “found a leak” in the apartment coming through the ceiling, and it was now not possible to stay in the apartment anymore.
Me and my friends were obviously shocked that this “leak” had only just been discovered when we were only 1 hour away from London. When we asked for proof of the leak, Mo refused to send us any, and he could not provide us with an alternate accommodation despite having “lots of properties in London”.
Left stranded in London with no place to stay, we were forced to look elsewhere and spend over £800 to stay at another accommodation without a refund from Mo.
Because of this we were 4 hours late to the event we had planned, and without much money to do to enjoy the weekend after having to spend this on new accommodation.
It turns out that Mo reported to Airbnb that we were going to “have a party” at the apartment, when we had no intentions of doing so, and had actually discriminated me by my age and profile.
He never mentioned the leak to Airbnb and he slyly only explained this on the phone so there was no proof of this communication.
Mo was rude, insensitive and unapologetic. He ruined our weekend by stereotyping me as somebody who was going to trash his apartment, and manipulated me and my friends into thinking there was a genuine reason we couldn’t stay at his property.
Please avoid this cunning and deceptive seller at all costs, I would not want you to experience a weekend so stressful and upsetting as me and my friends did.