A nightmare host.. He made my life in the apartment a living hell. I was supposed to stay at Michele’s place for 2 months, but I left after 2 week. I couldn't take it anymore. I was afraid for my safety. I actually had to report him to Airbnb. Here are some main issues I had with him.
- Michele was constantly intruding on my privacy. The first week he came in 3 times a day, just for random things. In the middle of work meeting, he used to ring the bell of the house at any time he wanted. He lived at his parents house, which was next to this apartment.
- He was very discriminative and very disrespectful toward me. He humiliated me telling everyone in the building that I am dirty American ( which wasn’t true at all) . In the first week, he came in the apartment without my approval while I was out. His excuse was that he had to check “something”. He found the house a little messy and little dirty.. He went insane.. When he came to the house uninvited, his girlfriend called him and he told her many bad thing about me in Italian just because the house was a mess. It's crazy. Too bad he didn’t know that I spoke Italian very well. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. How can you treat you guest like this, especially since I was paying a lot of money for the house..
- He wanted me to pay a cleaning lady each week. He told me that in order for me to stay in the apartment, a cleaning lady should come every week and I was going to pay for it. At first, I agreed because I didn’t want to move again especially since I had a 2 year old daughter.. After a week, Michele told me that instead of once a week, the woman is going to come 2 a week. It was crazy because the house was not dirty at all. However, this was a way for him to control me and intrude on my privacy. When I refused, for the cleaning lady to come, he kept messaging me everyday.. that someone needs to come and "clean" the house.. Despite me telling him NO many times
- I almost attacked by Michelle and his people for refusing the cleaning lady to come and clean the house twice a week, instead of one time. It was so upsetting because my daughter had to witness the whole confrontation. I spoke to Airbnb and I was told that I was not supposed to have a cleaning lady come to the house since it was not what is agreed in Airbnb and Michele had not included that under the rules.
- There were so many muscidoes in the house because there are many trees. It was awful. My daughter and I were covered with muscidoes bides. When I complained, Michele told me the muscidoes were because the house was dirty. Crazy..
- Internet was awful. There was no internet in the bedroom. I had to have meetings in the bathroom because the Internet came from his parents house. Before I even booked this place, I even send him a message to make sure the internet was good because I had to work. He said it was great.
- It was very hot inside the unit. No air conditioner. I told him to at least buy a small fan for my daughter since she is a baby and can’t handle the heat. Nothing.. heartless host. All he carried about was his apartment