PHOTO: ROBERT STEVEN/STUFF – The Property Store’s Jane Bennett took over managing the Taupō property after the owner suspected it was being sublet on Airbnb.
A tenant who made $27,000 secretly hosting Airbnb guests at a house she didn’t live at has been ordered to give her landlord the net profit.
For 14 months, Michelle Hawthorne ran the guesthouse, against the conditions of her lease, in a leafy Taupō suburb.
Hawthorne didn’t live at the property. She paid $380 per week in rent, but offered it for $105 per night online and had let it for 261 days over 14 months to March 2018.
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