They hired a house sitter when they went to Burning Man — and he rented their place on Airbnb

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/They-hired-a-housesitter-when-they-went-to-6512599.php

A San Francisco couple got an unpleasant surprise on their way to Burning Man this year.

As they were on their way to the annual arts festival in the Nevada desert, they received an email from one of their friends, thanking the couple for renting their apartment on Airbnb, The Guardian reports....

Instead, they had hired a professional house sitter they'd found on the site TrustedHousesitters.com, who had then listed the apartment on Airbnb himself — for a price of $2,000 for five days.

"I feel violated, and pretty upset that somebody I thought I could trust has done this to me," one of the apartment owners told The Guardian's Jemima Kiss. "He told our friends that there was a 'misunderstanding' between us, but there’s no way I told him he could go ahead and make $2,000 for himself."

[petronius]

1. I've never been to Burning Man and I don't live in SF, so my opinion is

pretty irrelevant - but it struck me as really discordant to hire a house sitter before going to a counter-culture festival...

(Arranging for pets and plants, of course - but that's not mentioned.)

[Starry Messenger]

2. This sounds like it should be on HBO's Silicon Valley.

That is so Bay Area.

[villager]

3. That, or we need a new installment of "Tales of the City"