Vacation rental house, kicked out within' 2 hours, still can't find a reason.

[zrau17]

Here's what happened. I'm not going to get into extreme detail, but this is the basic rundown. Two months prior to h2o I looked around and ended up calling a realtor to get a rental house. I searched for a house within my price range and amount of people it slept. I had eight people, I asked for a house that slept eight, I got one.

2 hours into getting settled, (I was food shopping) my friend calls from the house and says the realtor came and gave us 30 minutes to get out of the house and a house inspector is coming. I rush to the house to get her card, and I call her. She claims the contract I signed says the house does not rent to groups, and I continued to ask her why the **** I would research/call/rent and pay that much money to rent a house for eight people if eight ****ing people weren't coming, and the only thing she could say to me was the contract I signed does not rent to groups. Prior to this, when picking up the keys (with my girlfriend), this is what she asked me. My response was yes to this question, and I'm telling you that before hand so you can pay attention to the wording here. "Are you the two staying in the house on the contract?" Now think what you want about that. She goes on to tell me I must find myself somewhere to stay so I can bring the keys back in the morning for my refund.

She kicks me out of the house, tells me to find somewhere to stay, and bring the keys back on her time. So I now have to rush to find somewhere to go while we have food/drink sitting there that needs to be cold so it doesn't go bad or that's just another waste of money. After this all happened, I ended up calling a hotel and getting two rooms. Now since a hotel room is clearly not a house, we were all essentially forced to spend way more money on food and such because we had to go out to eat more, on top of having to walk through the rain on the weekend since we didn't have parking for all of our cars.

There's a lot more to the situation, especially money wise. I kind of had the most money out of everyone there by a long shot, and had to front nearly the entire hotel expense from my pocket so we could even get in until the next day we got our refund (which I also lost on paying a bank to cash it).

This is the last part. I have the contract, and no where on it does it say the house doesn't rent to groups.

Does anyone have insight as to what I can try and do or am I basically just screwed and got dicked over for no reason. I even asked her if there was a complaint and she said no.

[GeoffD]

If you had a signed contract in hand and weren't violating it, why did you leave?

[zrau17]

If you had a signed contract in hand and weren't violating it, why did you leave?

I didn't have the contract on me at the time and she was being quite a bitch about her reasoning and would refuse to meet with me that night since it was not "office hours." It's just kind of a sketchy situation when she claims a house inspector is coming and we had to be out or blah blah blah and none of us really knew how to handle it and didn't want any more trouble if we were to stay. I'm not trying to be the good guy or make everyone take my side, the woman was just truly being a complete bitch about EVERYTHING and I wanted to get some other takes on this.

It may sound ridiculous, but I've seen some court cases have people win for some incredible reasons and I know for a fact I spent way more money than I needed because of this happening which is what I'm irritated about it. Buying food in bulk at the supermarket to cook at home on a grill, stove, oven, whatever...ends up being way cheaper than going out all the time because all you have is a microwave, which also turns into more driving to actually GO eat.

[HI SPEED]

If I had a rental property in OC i wouldn't rent it out on h20 weekend either.

Still bs. If she is that much of a biatch you are better off leaving rather then her coming behind you nitpicking and keeping the deposit.

[BetterByDesign]

Based on what you've provided I think you had a case. How do you incorporate into a contract no groups. What is a group?

There should be a process in each state to evict someone and its usually not the owner coming around saying to get out and I have a home inspector?

Since you left the premises I am not sure that process can do anything for you. If you are looking for damages under contract law than go ahead but what are you claiming, 2 hours of time and a hotel room?

[zrau17]

Based on what you've provided I think you had a case. How do you incorporate into a contract no groups. What is a group?

There should be a process in each state to evict someone and its usually not the owner coming around saying to get out and I have a home inspector?

Since you left the premises I am not sure that process can do anything for you. If you are looking for damages under contract law than go ahead but what are you claiming, 2 hours of time and a hotel room?

That's exactly what I was trying to get out of her. Why when I called to go through and rent the house that's for 8 people I would only have me and someone else? It's just stupid, if you don't want 8 people there then don't list it as a house for 8 people...it's that simple.

I don't know what exactly I'd claim, but the point is that because of her doing this I had to shell out like $600something for me and my friends that didn't have the cash on them at the time, which left me not much money to do anything really until the next day when I made it to the place to drop off the keys, get the check, and go pay to cash it. What it all boiled down to is that we all had to spend way more money than we had originally planned and it kind of sucked that we were then limited to what we could do because of it. We're a bunch of 21-22 year old kids, I didn't go down there with 3k to blow on whatever the **** I wanted. It was hard earned money I then had to waste on stupid bull**** because I didn't have the convenient amenities of living in a house.

[BetterByDesign]

That's exactly what I was trying to get out of her. Why when I called to go through and rent the house that's for 8 people I would only have me and someone else? It's just stupid, if you don't want 8 people there then don't list it as a house for 8 people...it's that simple.

I don't know what exactly I'd claim, but the point is that because of her doing this I had to shell out like $600something for me and my friends that didn't have the cash on them at the time, which left me not much money to do anything really until the next day when I made it to the place to drop off the keys, get the check, and go pay to cash it. What it all boiled down to is that we all had to spend way more money than we had originally planned and it kind of sucked that we were then limited to what we could do because of it. We're a bunch of 21-22 year old kids, I didn't go down there with 3k to blow on whatever the **** I wanted. It was hard earned money I then had to waste on stupid bull**** because I didn't have the convenient amenities of living in a house.

To be honest I would not want to rent to eight 21 year olds either. Something didn't happen in the
The signing process. Next time don't vacate the premises if you have a contract in place.

[484]

I would guess that something shady is going on like she wasn't supposed to be using the house as a rental.

When a couple of 21-22 year olds sign a contract on an 8-person house during h2o week, the owner has got to know it ain't for a 'family'. It's for a 'group' of 8 20-somethings. It's a big house in a party town. That's what damage deposits are for. No problem. If the owner is unaware of this, they're pretty ****ing naive.

I bet she did not go through the proper channels to be able to legally rent out the house, whatever the situation, and got called on it. Hence needing you all out on a moment's notice for an inspection.

[16v]

I would guess that something shady is going on like she wasn't supposed to be using the house as a rental.

ding!

[Rbothell1]

If it doesn't state on the contract that this rental is not "for groups", get her (or her rental company) to reimburse you (and/or your group) for any extra fees that came out of your pocket for this.
Few things make me more upset than having to pay for someone elses incompetence.

[leaftye]

You guys probably saved her job and allowed her to perpetuate her scam by complying with her wishes. I understand you guys just wanted to get on with things, but it's too bad you didn't push things until this house inspector or whoever it really was showed up and got what the realtor was doing documented. That, or tied her in the house, burned it and left a copy of the contract nailed to the mailbox.

[GeoffD]

I would guess that something shady is going on like she wasn't supposed to be using the house as a rental.

When a couple of 21-22 year olds sign a contract on an 8-person house during h2o week, the owner has got to know it ain't for a 'family'. It's for a 'group' of 8 20-somethings. It's a big house in a party town. That's what damage deposits are for. No problem. If the owner is unaware of this, they're pretty ****ing naive.

I bet she did not go through the proper channels to be able to legally rent out the house, whatever the situation, and got called on it. Hence needing you all out on a moment's notice for an inspection.

I think the more likely thing was that the owner drove by and saw a ton of cars and young kids on his property. He was expecting the realtor to screen rentals to prevent massive parties with damage. Irate call from owner to realtor telling them to tell those people to GTFO. If I owned beach rental property and instructed the realtor to rent to mellow families only, that's what I'd do. An out of control party in a rental can easily do $20K in damages. The realtor will refuse to pay. Homeowners will refuse to pay. The out-of-state renters vanish so you can't collect there.

My winter place is a townhouse condo. The unit next door had one of these one New Years weekend. I called the owners. They called the property management company. The contract says 2 cars/6 people and they had 10 cars/20+ people. The town constable and state police ended up having to kick them out.