Family rents Quebec woman's pool on app without her consent
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A woman who lives east of Montreal in Repentigny came home to a pool party on Sunday after a family of five had rented it on the Swimply app without the consent of the homeowner.
A woman who lives east of Montreal in Repentigny came home to a pool party on Sunday after a family of five had rented it on the Swimply app without the consent of the homeowner.
Repentigny resident Maryse Chaussé said she found a couple and their three children in her backyard after they had rented the pool on the mobile app, which lets users rent pools by the hour.
"We arrived and there was a car in the parking spot," Chaussé told Noovo Info. "There was a little family swimming in the pool, with three cute little girls."
It is not the first time this has happened. NBC Los Angeles reported in May that someone posted a Santa Barbara man's backyard pool on the app to pocket the fee, about a week after he put his house on the market.
The couple explained to Chaussé that they paid around $35 for use of the pool.
Chaussé told Noovo Info that she recognized the woman who posted the rental as a former tenant who moved out around 2022.
She's now wondering if this is the first time strangers have been taking a dip in her pool when she's not home.
