San Francisco man rents his neighbor’s apartment on Airbnb through a fake name and then refuses to leave

A San Francisco resident allegedly duped his building co-owners into renting him their unit on Airbnb through a false identity and now refuses to leave, according to a complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court.Michelle Huang and her boyfriend Thomas Payne bought three units, including a two-bedroom, in a six-unit tenancy-in-common building in Telegraph Hill in 2012 and live in a nearby apartment.Huang alleges that Sandeep Andre Hingorani, a fellow co-owner of the property who they’ve squabbled with for years, tricked them into letting him rent their two-bedroom unit for 60 days with two associates - his mother and friend - through a Airbnb user named ‘Jim Tako’.

The couple had been renting out two units on Airbnb, and due to regulations in San Francisco, they switched their rentals to last longer than a month because it’s difficult to rent out an entire home for less than 30 days. During the April and May rental, Huang and Payne never met Tako, only doing business through his two 'associates', according to the San Francisco Chronicle. When the two months were almost finished, they were shocked when an attorney told them that Hingorani was the tenant and was converting his stay into an ongoing month-to-month tenancy - a right San Francisco residents have after a 30-day stay.The rent board approved Hingorani’s stay in the unit with his mother and friend, Piper Davis. The apartment was listed on Airbnb for but on the lease contract, Huang and Payne had left the rent amount blank, so the renters wrote in $3,256, and Huang didn't notice until the following day. 

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