A landlord accused of evicting tenants from her East Vancouver house to make big bucks during the Olympics said she would remove an Internet ad offering Games-time rentals.

"That was a mistake, I totally overlooked that," said Mariana Gerenska, who co-owns 916 East 11th Avenue with her husband. "We had been exploring the market before that, we had more time."

An ad for the nine-room house on SportEventsRentMyHouse.com said rent is $11,900 per week for a two-week minimum or $34,000 for all of February and March. Gerenska, a learning developer with the B.C. Public Service Agency in Victoria, said she had just one inquiry from a prospective renter. She may still try to rent space if the house isn't full of relatives visiting from Europe to witness her childbirth.

Simon Fraser University graduate student Susan Brown has paid $580 a month since July on a seven-month term. She said she received a Nov. 23 notice to vacate by Jan. 31. The form said the unit will be "occupied by the landlord or the landlord's spouse or a close family member (father, mother or child) of the landlord of the landlord's spouse."

Tenant Sam Campbell, who also received an eviction notice, discovered the ad online and said he used a false identity to make an email inquiry about Olympic rentals. He said Gerenska quoted $4,800 for one floor of the house for a week. Gerenska said she does not have a $106 civic short-term rental permit. As of Monday, only 95 had been sold by city hall. An April 9 report to city council estimated it would issue at least 1,000 permits to landlords renting to Olympic visitors because of hotel room scarcity.

Bob Mackin reports for 24 Hours Vancouver.