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flag A B.C. host lost her Airbnb listing due to fraudulently used registration, despite her clean record, exposing flaws in the province’s rushed rental registry.

flag A British Columbia senior, Hutton, had her Airbnb listing and registration canceled after her province-issued number was fraudulently used, leading to automatic removal despite her 600 five-star reviews and legitimate hosting history. flag Airbnb acted on a provincial alert tied to the misuse, highlighting flaws in the rushed rollout of B.C.’s short-term rental registry, which lacks safeguards against fraud and wrongful suspensions. flag Hutton faced hours of unreturned calls before officials admitted the error and reinstated her registration, by which time she had lost 17 bookings and incurred emotional and financial strain. flag The province acknowledged the system’s flaws and said over 1,800 illegal listings were removed, but did not specify how many honest hosts were wrongly affected.

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