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Updated over 6 years ago, 04/24/2018
- Rental Property Investor
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Guest Broke My TV. What would you do?
I touched on this on one of Pauls posts but here goes....
Guest checked in Saturday. Late Saturday night (midnight) I got a message and the thread goes as follows...
guest: "Hey just FYI your tv is broken Netflix on displays a half screen and the cable box doesn't work. I hooked up my laptop directly to the hdmi cable and nothing" (i'm guessing too much moonshine)
me: "Interesting that's a brand new tv try putting it on HDMI1, also why are you messing around with cables?"
Guest sends picture with broken screen. It's the left half.
me: "Why is the tv slid all the way to the left against the wall?" (from what I can tell guest slid it to the left and banged it on the wall to its left which my guess is that's why it's broken. Probably drunkenly trying to get at hdmi inputs to hook up his computer)
guest: "idk it was like that so i tried casting from my phone and same thing we're just goin to use our laptop. It displays everything else fine until Netflix plays a movie not sure" (so it went from not working at all to working on everything but Netflix which there's no way that's possible. The pic he sent the whole left half of the tv is busted)
Cleaner is headed over now for more info. If it really is trashed I'll have to send handyman to Walmart to replace it today.
I called airbnb they said send him a resolution (bill) for the price of the TV and see if he pays it. If he doesn't it will get escalated and during the process he still has the right to leave a review.
This was a $600 55" TLC that I purchased last may so it did't even make it a year.
I have until 4:00 today (before next guest check in) to file the resolution.
What would you do??