New Yorker Finds Self Homeless, on Tenant Blacklist After Airbnb XXX Scandal

June 1, 2015 — Frank Sinatra told us all those years ago that if you can make it here in New York, you can make it anywhere. Life's tough in the Big Apple — never mind expensive. For one New Yorker, it's been an especially tough year. Since January, he's had to move from place to place, twenty in all, including crashing at friends' places and even in his own office. What happened to Art Teman? Well, if the name doesn't ring a bell, you might assume he couldn't afford rent in the big city anymore. Maybe he lost his job. But Teman, who describes himself as "homeless" now, didn't is still employed and wasn't having money troubles until he had to start shelling out cash for sublets and hotels. Teman found himself on the dreaded and infamous tenant blacklist after his Chelsea apartment made headlines last year for being the scene of an orgy. And he wasn't even invited. According to Brickunderground, Teman's "Airbnb guests turned his rental into a 'XXX Freak Fest orgy.'" Hope he's not a germophobe. As a result of the raunchy debacle, his broker dropped him and no new broker wants to give him the time of day. It seems like New York has chewed Teman up and spat him out. According to an open letter Teman wrote to Airbnb on his Tumblr blog, he can't get anyone to offer him a lease in the whole of the city, not even with promises of paying a full year of rent up front. "And now," writes Brickunderground, "we have an answer to the age-old question, 'What could be worse than coming home to find a BBW orgy in your apartment?' Getting stuck on the tenant blacklist, apparently." Duly noted.