David Krauss had parlayed his Dallas condo into a successful Airbnb listing until one fateful weekend in 2014. Then, a couple of guests threw a party so loud it elicited more than a dozen noise complaints from neighbors, a police report and an angry letter from an attorney.
His reputation in the building was so sullied he decided it was best to sell the unit – at a US$30,000 (RM124,000) loss. But Krauss, a former independent real estate developer, wasn’t finished with Airbnb.
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