Roberto started off with this persona of being welcoming and friendly. This soon turned sour. We paid Roberto over €6,700 for a two month stay in his listing. Prior to booking Roberto told us medium-long term guests could have visitors from time to time and I informed him we may be a little loud at times. He said that was fine. I have all of this in writing.
He then starts to claim we are breaking house rules which are visitors (previously told was fine) and having our shoes inside (which we didn’t wear just had them inside tooked away). He burst into the property and started shouting at my housemates while they were only wearing their boxer shorts. A problem a previous tenant also had. Highlighting the problem of a lack of privacy we all felt.
He asked us to send payments for the last week of our stay through PayPal and eventually agreed for us to send it to him through “extra services” on AirBnB (€750 with a further €800 to be paid legitimately through AirBnB). In hindsight it’s ironic Roberto evicted us for this final week (two days after we paid another €800).
When we mentioned how a long term tenant must legally be given 30 days notice of cancellation he then wanted to team up with us to sue AirBnB. The guy is a conman. He happily left 7 young men on the streets of Chicago far away from home unable to afford alternative accommodation as we paid in full for his place but were told to leave a week before the date we paid for. Roberto is now refusing to reply to our messages of a refund. I would highly recommend everyone avoid this mans listing. He’s a coward and a conman.