For my review of Anna’s house, I will be responding directly to the claims she has made in her review of me.

First of all, my girlfriend and I never met Anna. She left for the time of our stay and gave us her bedroom while another pair of guests stayed in the basement. It was this other couple that greeted us upon arrival, handed us the key and showed us around.

With regard to the claim that “Guests kept their shoes in the house”: I asked these other guests as soon as we walked in if we should remove our shoes. They answered in the affirmative and I obliged. Now, I do take responsibility for wearing my shoes on two occasions when walking in from the front door, up the stairs to our room and then from the room back down to the door. I preferred this because the steps in her home were steep and I wanted some traction on the wooden floors, particularly at night. I understand how this might be viewed as a significant transgression of the house rules, and if it is, I apologize profusely; but in no way did we “kept our shoes on” when moving about the house.

As far as the claim that we “drank beers from the fridge,” my girlfriend did ask the other guests on our first night if she could take ONE Cremore beer from the refrigerator. It had been made explicit to us that the beer in the refrigerator belonged to these guests, not Anna. The guests told us it was okay and so we took the one, single beer. Now, we did promise to replace the beer and forgot to do so, for which we are very sorry.

However, it is extremely strange to me that these accusations of disrespectful behavior are being brought about by a host who was not in the house at the time. Not only are the claims inaccurate, but they lead me to understand that it was, in fact, the other guests who were “watching” us and who subsequently reported these accusations to the host. I do not appreciate these guests making false accusations, nor do I appreciate the host taking these false accusations as truth and then reiterating them publicly without substantive evidence.

I will add that the situation with these other guests was strange to begin with. Although Anna told us it would be her “friends” greeting us upon arrival, it was not made clear that these people were, in fact, another couple whom she had also taken on through airbnb. Furthermore, this couple made it immediately clear that they were not “friends” with Anna, but tenants who had met her only a few weeks earlier and had negotiated a month-long stay with her.

I do not wish to “get back” at Anna for a negative review, but her claims are baseless, based on hearsay and incorrect. My impression is that she is an overall dishonest hostess.