Okay a bit of a strange one here but I'll keep it brief.
Got a call last night from a Romanian woman living in Aberdeen saying that she wanted to book for a week starting today.
Agreed a price and she arrived with her partner today (by bus)
she looked around the apartment and asked where we lived (upstairs, it's a basement apartment). I handed over the keys and left after taking the weeks money upfront in cash.
got a text barely 10 mins later to say please call me. I did and she asked me to come to the apartment right away.
I go into the kitchen and there is another woman there who is apparently the auntie of the man. The original woman then starts on about how they have just received a call from Aberdeen an that a relative is gravely ill and that they have to leave now.
I am beginning to get a bit suspicious of them and decide to give them their cash back straight away. They leave in the pouring rain with a twenty minute walk back to the bus station.
I have checked over the apartment and everything seems to be okay... nothing missing or broken.
The question is what on earth were they up to? I am assuming that the ill relative might have been just an excuse to get out?
We have never had anything like this before and have 5 star reviews on TA, with no negative comments so it can't have been the apartment. very confused!
strange one!
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Maybe they were going to bring in the rest of the (extended) family, throw out all your possessions they had no use for and settle down for winter (and beyond) but when they realised you also live upstairs they decided your place was not suitable for them (to take over) so left (to join the rest of the family) around the cormer.
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It sounds like whatever their plan was it got spoiled when they found out you lived upstairs.
I would hope that whatever they were up to was brought to a halt given you can watch the property quite well being onsite.
Gosh....there are some wierd happenings at the moment!
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I would hope that whatever they were up to was brought to a halt given you can watch the property quite well being onsite.
Gosh....there are some wierd happenings at the moment!
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Re: strange one!
I'm not sure it would have got that far with a lot of owners Bobby... I'm thinking a mix of booking forms, terms to agree to and ordinarily doing such things in a structured way allows an owner some breathing space for a bit of due diligence or even just a gut feeling about a booker.bobby spray wrote:Got a call last night from a Romanian woman living in Aberdeen saying that she wanted to book for a week starting today.
Agreed a price and she arrived with her partner today
Instant booking is fine for hotels as their numbers can allow for the odd bad egg but too risky for me for sure.
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Lesson learned. We won't be taking any cash payments at all from now on. I reckon that Sam was on the right track. I forgot to mention that the third woman had a suitcase with her as well. So she was definitely looking to stay. I reckon they just bottled it. I'm 6'3" and an ex county rugby player... they were probably worried I would have kicked off... and would have My wife took the original call so maybe they thought that fleecing a woman would be easier.