costalpilot
Active Member
hypothetical:
1. you have a rental home, a historic 100 year old home. full home. 3 bedroom, dinning room living room...the whole home.
2. you rent it to four people for three nights
3. bats show up during their stay...they call your on site manager, he shows up, finds out where the bats entered, plugs it up and leaves. bats are a protected species. you can'ty kill them.
4. some remain in the old fireplace flue. a few are still fliting about the house.
5. your four renters stay the entire three nights.
6. upon leaving, they call you up, and complain.
7. you say, alright, let me talk to my husband, my manager, give me three days. i think we will be able to make an adjustment, but I need a few days.
8. they immediately reject your request for a few days, and demand immediate repayment of their money, or else they will start an intenet campaign against you.
9. You've had a bad couple of days, so you hang up on them.
10 yadayaddayadda....they keep calling you back, wanting their money back or they will begin a campaign against you.
11. they leave a phone message which says "give us at least a days money back or else you'll be sorry."
12. you have that recorded proof of them threaening your business unless you pay them back some money.
13. They then begin a campaign, which results in a bad review from them on an internet hoem rental site that you use.
14. they use their jobs as (say) bank officers in a nearby town as part of this campaign, including their banks official email service for coorespondence, and identifying themselves as bak officers when they are complaining to various entities.
is this extortion? do you have proof? what would you do?
thanks for any and all opinions
1. you have a rental home, a historic 100 year old home. full home. 3 bedroom, dinning room living room...the whole home.
2. you rent it to four people for three nights
3. bats show up during their stay...they call your on site manager, he shows up, finds out where the bats entered, plugs it up and leaves. bats are a protected species. you can'ty kill them.
4. some remain in the old fireplace flue. a few are still fliting about the house.
5. your four renters stay the entire three nights.
6. upon leaving, they call you up, and complain.
7. you say, alright, let me talk to my husband, my manager, give me three days. i think we will be able to make an adjustment, but I need a few days.
8. they immediately reject your request for a few days, and demand immediate repayment of their money, or else they will start an intenet campaign against you.
9. You've had a bad couple of days, so you hang up on them.
10 yadayaddayadda....they keep calling you back, wanting their money back or they will begin a campaign against you.
11. they leave a phone message which says "give us at least a days money back or else you'll be sorry."
12. you have that recorded proof of them threaening your business unless you pay them back some money.
13. They then begin a campaign, which results in a bad review from them on an internet hoem rental site that you use.
14. they use their jobs as (say) bank officers in a nearby town as part of this campaign, including their banks official email service for coorespondence, and identifying themselves as bak officers when they are complaining to various entities.
is this extortion? do you have proof? what would you do?
thanks for any and all opinions