Toronto family seeks compensation for trashed home in ‘horrific’ rental-gone-wrong
TORONTO — Thieves made off with a 50-inch TV, treasured family heirlooms and a carefully curated sneaker collection, but it’s their son’s plundered piggy bank that really upsets Daniel Habashi and Andrea Van Leeuwen.
The Toronto homeowners say they were shocked to find their century-old Victorian rowhouse trashed and ransacked after renting it out for a weekend in July on the Airbnb-like website Kid & Coe.
They are now suing the New York-based company and estimate damages to the home and the value of stolen property total $100,000.
“The (renters) ransacked our home, they emptied drawers out, cleared out closets, they used our own luggage to sort through all our belongings to determine what to take, what to sell,” said Van Leeuwen, who suspects more than 50 people trampled through their house at a raucous party.