The night I spent at Teresa's apartment was by far the worst experience I've had in an airbnb or anywhere else. Upon arrival, she informed my boyfriend and I that we would have to be very quiet, as the walls and floors are very thin. Of course we readily agreed. We went out to dinner and when we returned later in the evening the door to the apartment would not open, we were very worried. Eventually she opened the door for us and harshly reminded us that she'd told us to be quiet. We were very apologetic. We entered our bedroom and I removed my backpack from the bed and put it on the floor. Immediately there is a knock on the door. It is Teresa. She tells me we are being disrespectful and rude by making noise. I apologize. We go to bed. A little while later we are doing what couples do in bed in private, making an effort to be as quiet as possible. Soon, she started banging on the door again, and then had the audacity to walk in and stand at the foot of our bed screaming in Portuguese, while we are both naked and exposed. After a few minutes she switched to English, she was yelling at us that this is not a hostel, that we are being disrespectful, that she can hear everything and if she can so can her neighbors and that this is an outrage and has never happened before and that she is going to report us to airbnb. She was making more noise than us! She finally leaves our room. My boyfriend goes to the living room to apologize but she kept yelling at him like a disobedient child or a misbehaving dog. She then calls airbnb, tells them my name and how shockingly "disrespectful" I have been. I tried to remind her that we had paid for the room and had a right to not be accosted and shamed but she would not calm down. I was terrified she was going to kick us out on the street in the middle of the night in a foreign country. Luckily she did not, but for the rest of the night I was too nervous to even go to the kitchen to get water for fear of getting another scolding.
Just to be clear, we were incredibly respectful. We were not making much noise at all in any of the instances that evoked her anger. We are all adults there was no need for her to fly off the handle as she did, unless perhaps she suffers from severe obsessive compulsive disorder or something, in which case she should not be renting out a room in her apartment. We choose airbnb to have our own room and privacy while traveling as a family. Teresa aggressively violated our privacy and ruined our trip.