“We Need Your Apartment For The Weekend,” She Texted—Without Asking

someone isn’t asking. They’re taking. Again.

I stepped out of line at Target, milk still in my hand, and opened my smart lock app—the one I’d installed last week because I’d finally gotten tired of coming home to moved furniture, missing food, and strangers calling my place “overflow.”

The screen showed my front door: ONLINE. AUTOLOCK: ON.

Then my camera continue reading …