If the article author is reading, watch to see whether the property is booked again for the time of the reservation. Then once it's done, sue the property owner

If the article author is reading, watch to see whether the property is booked again for the time of the reservation. Then once it's done, sue the property owner personally (not Airbnb) in small claims court and argue your case on the equitable basis of "unjust enrichment." This basically means that it's not fair for a contract to end up with someone getting paid twice for a single transaction, and the court has the equitable power to fix that by making the recipient "disgorge" the profits. The magic word is "equitable," which tells the judge to switch modes from legal remedies to equitable remedies. That is also how you get around the sticky Airbnb-as-defendant question, and how you avoid the arbitration clause that's likely in the Airbnb ToS. (I'm not your lawyer. This isn't legal advice. Good luck.)