I realize now in retrospect the way this stay operated was quite unethical. I called to ask to cancel my stay because I wanted to stay in a different part of the city having low expectations for the host’s reply because I had already booked for the month and his cancellation policy in terms of refunds was strictly no cancellations after booking for the first 30 days. He seemed, at the time, kind enough to agree to it, on the condition that I stay only for the night and leave the next day, and for him to keep $300 out of the total $1551.14 that I was charged. I was desperate at the time and didn’t think about this, knowing hosts from experience usually don’t condone any refund after a stay is booked and the check-in date has passed unless it’s stated otherwise in their policy and I really just wanted to stay in another part of town and didn’t think much about it in the moment. I realize looking back now he was basically saying he wanted to charge me $300 for one night at his room, which is more than it costs to book one night in a full luxury apartment, let alone a dingy one bedroom in a house of at least 3-4 rooms. And he used my desperation in this situation to pull this off. So now it makes sense that the very next day I was approached, harassed, then sexually harassed/tried to be extorted or situationally taken advantage of by someone claiming to work for him - a man who said his name was Paul, who worked for the host (Billy/Scott) harassed/interrogated me for 10-15 minutes, this level of apparent fervour for his boss surprised me and so I asked him what he wanted in this situation (I wasn’t even thinking personally, just why he was pressing so hard on me like this) and he outright said he wanted a ‘’handjob’’. No joke. Then this crazy man starts calling me names like ‘liar’ and ‘cheater’ (lol what?) and filming me and claiming that I am crazy when I say the statement, ‘are you sexually extorting me right now’? I mean you’re making this huge fuss and coming at me like I’m some kind of criminal and then when I ask what you want from me out of exasperation you say a handjob so this kind of feels like you’re wielding pressure from this situation as some kind of power to hold over me for some personal gain so that is kind of the dictionary definition of extortion. I push for this and he’s literally like, ‘who’s going to believe you? It’s your word against mine’ - wow. So obviously this guy is some kind of gaslighting misogynistic criminal. Anyways, basically, the host is shady, his employee is hella shady, god knows what anyone else he hires here is like, I pray they’re not like either him or his employee but this honestly kind of feels like an ‘the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’ kind of situation. Both employer and employee try to take advantage of tenants in that building. So basically my review is you get preyed upon financially, and if you’re a woman - sexually as well, when you check in at this Airbnb!
Host: good on you for hiring a future rapist to freely live among your guests. Kind of goes without saying but perhaps you should screen your employees better. Cheers for that!
And dear Paul: I hope whatever mental institution eventually takes you in will help you with your pathetic variant on sexual frustration! You do realize you can’t confuse guests with prostitutes, right? What garbage dump were you raised in again? The small dick kind? Too ashamed to advertise yourself on Tinder, huh? If I looked like you I would hide my face too - especially from the police, as we both witnessed. It all makes sense now, everything you said. It is your word against mine - words are all you can use, you don’t have a face you can show. Coward.