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Bay Area VRBO renters wake up to tires slashed + threatening messaging spraypain
| At-the-ready New Version Hunting Ground | 10/19/21 |
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Date: October 19th, 2021 6:45 PM Author: At-the-ready New Version Hunting Ground Report: Bay Area VRBO renters wake up to a terrifying message Brian Boyle Oct. 19, 2021 Updated: Oct. 19, 2021 9:27 a.m. Close-up of human hand holding a cellphone displaying home screen of the VRBO vacation rental app, Lafayette, California, September 15, 2021. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Close-up of human hand holding a cellphone displaying home screen of the VRBO vacation rental app, Lafayette, California, September 15, 2021. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images When a group of 11 friends rented a VRBO in Fairfield, Calif., they were expecting a relaxing vacation in wine country. What they were met with instead could’ve been ripped straight from the Netflix horror series “Midnight Mass.”
On the morning of Saturday, Oct. 9, the group’s third day in the rental home, they reportedly woke up to find the tires of their rental vans slashed and a pair of threatening messages spray-painted onto the property’s twin garages, ABC7 reported Monday night.
“This is your final warning," one read. "The tribe has spoken. Leave this place or else.”
“You have no idea who live on this mountain," the other said. "Do not underestimate our people!”
NIGHTMARE VRBO RENTAL: “Leave this place or else.”
A group of friends visiting wine country had a pretty awful experience with their @vrbo rental in Fairfield, CA.
They woke up to all four of their rental van tires slashed — & this threatening messaging painted on the garage. pic.twitter.com/wbyubMQTog
— Liz Kreutz (@ABCLiz) October 18, 2021 “I was terrified. Honestly, I thought it was a joke,” Alana Harrison, one of the 11 people staying at the property, told ABC7.
Though the messages were no joke, they aren’t quite the sinister warnings of a scary movie monster either. Instead, the impetus for the vandalism, according to ABC7, is something far more real: a neighborhood feud over short-term vacation rentals, pushed to the brink after the property in question continued to book guests despite recently being denied the requisite permits.
According to Cliff Neal, a cul-de-sac neighbor of the property who spoke to ABC7, over 100 households signed a petition asking the county to shut down the rental property. Neal says the home had been repurposed to accommodate 10 beds, perfect for attracting rambunctious out-of-town partiers — exactly the type of trouble, and fire risk, the neighborhood hoped to avoid.
For their part, the group of vacationers filed a police report, but, with no options for alternative housing, they were forced to stay in the home for the remainder of their trip.
Eventually, VRBO partially reimbursed the travelers after Harrison’s Facebook post about the incident gained online attention. |