Two Families are Suing the Owners of a $10,000 Luxury Hamptons Rental Home After Claiming the Owners Prevented Them From Adjusting the Cooling System by Two Degrees

• Two families are suing after claiming the owners of their rental property refused to solve problems with the home.
• The guests claim they were not allowed to adjust the air conditioning.
• According to the suit, the family paid $10,000 for a 14-day stay in the Hamptons.

Two New York families filed a lawsuit claiming that their vacation was ruined when they couldn't adjust the air conditioning in their rental home.

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According to the suit, Toby Cohen and Jonathan Neman's families were treated as "squatters" and had their safety threatened during their stay at a luxury rental home.

The lawsuit stated that Melbarde and Gass violated their agreement to provide a vacation rental. The situation was similar to the one Melbarde and Gass were attempting to remove from the property by making it unsafe and unlivable.

Cohen and Nemen agreed to pay $10,000 to rent a home for their family's vacation.

According to the complaint, the two families who all stayed in the house, and one of whose wife included an 8-month pregnant mother and children under 8, could not sleep for the rest of the stay.

According to the suit, the two-story, three-bedroom home, which was listed as a "vacation rental", was cooled and heated by a small central air conditioning and thermostat set to a minimum temperature of 70 degrees.

The family said that due to the air conditioning unit's location on the opposite side of the home from the bedrooms, their rooms weren't getting enough air.

The family claims that Melbarde refused to change the temperature because the air conditioner didn't cool the house properly.

Cohen and Neman said their families were forced to endure constant pain during their stay at the house.

The family was not warned in advance of the spraying of the backyard.

The lawsuit claims that Melbarde and Gass told the people to suck it up and deal with the issues they were in charge of.

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