A house is not a home, sometimes.

When Natalie Siburt of North Carolina, USA recently moved into her condominium unit that she purchased last month, the mortgage company employee got a surprise visit from a stranger a few days later.

A man with a suitcase appeared at the door and told Siburt he had booked the house through Airbnb, an online property listing used by travelers to rent a place to stay in.

In a post about the incident on her Instagram, Siburt said she told the visitor there was a mistake and reported the matter to Airbnb. The online booking firm told her the previous tenant of the house booked the place for the man without the property owner's permission.

Siburt then learned that the previous tenant was evicted for renting out the place via Airbnb and the homeowner was unaware that the house was still listed on the platform. At the behest of the homeowner, Airbnb delisted the property.

With the resolution of the Airbnb booking error, Siburt could now enjoy living in her place.

A bizarre housing error, meanwhile, caused a Filipino property buyer working abroad to lose her peace of mind.

Marilyn Ramos bought a 96-square-meter property in Rosario, Batangas using 10 years' worth of savings as an overseas worker and had her dream home built on the land located inside a subdivision.

Ramos hired a geodetic engineer recommended by the property developer to identify her lot, a prerequisite for constructing the house.

With the lot verified, the developer gave the go-signal for the groundbreaking.

Unable to personally observe the construction as she was working in the United Arab Emirates, Ramos asked one of her siblings to monitor the works while a relative also took part in the building.

After seven months, Ramos' two-story house was finished at a cost of P3.5 million. When she was reclaiming the construction bond from the developer, Ramos was shocked to learn that her house had been built on the wrong lot.

Ramos is now planning to sue the developer for the fiasco while balking at the demand of the owner of the lot where her house was wrongfully built, according to the legal advice show "Sumbungan ng Bayan."

The latter wants Ramos to buy not only the lot where her house stands but also two other adjacent lots at a high price and pay a 30 percent downpayment by December, she claimed.