I’ve been a host with Airbnb for years and found with solid house rules, filtering guests with no government ID through using Instant Book and reminding guests using a house manual including rules, I’ve had no problems.
I recently had guests who cooked curry every night for a week and the cleaning was a nightmare. I hadn’t thought to put “no cooking strong curries” in my house rules. The whole guest suite needed cleaning, including the walls, curtains, verticals, lounge and I had to hire an ozone machine to do the rest.
One week later, the smell had gone. This could happen with any rental, so it’s important to add this rule into a contract or house rules list.
Even though the guest was non responsive to my request for payment, Airbnb followed up immediately (after their 72-hour wait for guest to respond time), and refunded the costs of this incident. So even though my curry nightmare was not good, Airbnb was responsive, positive, caring and great.
Many of the things I’m reading on this site may be due to hosts not choosing to set firm enough boundaries and house rules. Those who choose anyone as a guest over filtering guests with ID, are always running a risk no matter which platform they choose to list their property on. I’ve found Airbnb to be nothing but wonderful.
Hahaha you shouldn’t be hosting, you’re racist.
“i’m not a racist, but…”
how about you just make a rule banning Indians altogether? Seems like that’s really what you’re getting at here
YOU CANT BAN AN ETHNICITY! Your listing would get taken down. Plus there are 1.3 Billion Indian people in the world.
What did you expect? You rented out your home to someone who paid to live there. They should have the freedom to cook.
agreed. Not only is it culturally insensitive if the owner decides to add this to their listing, that’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.