Airbnb host finds the bedroom soaking wet after a family checks out. Then the host’s jaw drops after tracing the flooding source: ‘I sucked out’

An Airbnb manager has posted a TikTok video showing water damage to the property, and the comments section can’t quite believe the guests may be at fault.

The evidence turned up on a ceiling, one floor below the room where a dark stain had spread across the plaster. “So, the bed was soaking wet when the cleaner got here,” he explains. “And there’s no bathroom, there’s nothing above here.” 

He then goes upstairs to show a wall-mounted mini split in the bedroom. “You know what the guest did? I guess they have children upstairs and these kids open the window. So, obviously it’s 95 degrees here.”

He believes children in the party left the window open while the split was on, so water poured out of it and pooled on the floor. “I sucked out the drain lines,” he explained. “My guess is it was overworking.”

The clip comes courtesy of Skeens Family Rentals, a rental business based in Tennessee that posts turnover footage on TikTok.

While the owner or manager doesn’t explicitly say that the guests are at fault, the implication is there. This compelled a number of users to call him out in the comments.

“Yeah, that was actually your fault and responsibility,” one user wrote.

“Calm down Cassie & Jon,” another person’s comment read, referring to the famous TikTok couple whose videos have gone viral for filming post-checkout inspections of their property, and added: “Not their fault.”

A ventilation expert agreed with them. “Drain had a restriction in the tiny drain tube and the drain started overflowing.” 

The claim about the open window has some merit

A ductless system cools by drawing room air across a cold evaporator coil. Moisture in that air condenses on the coil, and exists through a condensate drain line. The tray itself usually holds nothing, which means the whole arrangement only works if water leaves at the rate it forms. An open window changes that dynamic, causing the system to keep running and causing a leak, and manufacturers actually list long run times in humid conditions among the standard causes of this.

That doesn’t necessarily translate to the guests being at fault here. As for Airbnb, host damage protection pays out as much as $3 million when a guest damages a property, provided the host files a reimbursement request no later than 14 days after checkout. 

For now, the host says he’s waiting on the technician before deciding what to do. As far as weird Airbnb incidents are concerned, this one is oddly difficult to pin on anyone.