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Early Monday morning, a neighbour contacted the Kings, asking if everything was all right. They said the police had been to the home multiple times since Saturday night for noise complaints.

Later that day, the Kings arrived at their house. Police were already on scene responding to reports that a fight had broken out. Even though they are the legal owners of the home, the Kings couldn’t enter the house. Under the agreement with Airbnb, the renters were legal tenants at the time, meaning their privacy was protected under the Residential Tenancies Act.

“Finally, after begging with them … they finally called taxi cabs and slowly evacuate,” Mark recalled.

When he and his wife entered the house for the first time, they were “almost knocked over by the fumes.”

The couch cushions were stained and piled in a hallway, nearly every surface was covered in garbage, dishes, sticky substances and cigarette butts. There was barbecue sauce on the ceiling, a chicken bone in one of Star’s shoes, and the remains of a birthday cake sitting on the kitchen counter.

“For me, my first feeling was shock,” he said. “I couldn’t process it. This is our home, this is our sanctuary. We’ve got a five year old and a one year old, and the sense of violation … the lie that was told and the trust that I had in somebody, and then this happens.”

Upstairs, the Kings found bras and underwear strewn about, with condoms and wrappers in the garbage cans. Cigarettes and joints had been stubbed out on Mark’s desk and on the furniture.