I want to start by saying I've never written a long review for anything before, but I felt that I had to for how wack my stay was. Some highlights of the disrespectful things that occurred in my four week stay:
From right off the bat when I first showed up: I asked if I could plug in my ethernet cord to the router, which was only 6 feet away from my private area. She insisted I was not allowed to, and upon some further questions, it was clear she did not know what it was. I can't blame someone for that, but Sally shut down any attempt to explain, and just kept insisting that I could not use ethernet for more than a couple days. My wifi was broken, so I needed internet, but she did not care. (later, when after she realized that it didn't affect anything, she didn't mention it, because duh it was a non-issue to begin with)
Another weird thing upon showing up was I had to keep repeating that I wanted to keep both of my bags in my room because Sally kept telling me to leave one in the front. She was starting this strange argument about it, and I just wanted to have my bags near me for convenience, with her insisting that my room didn't have enough space.
On a weekday at 11:30pm, I came home and her and a friend were listening to music and talking in essentially the next room. I had Spanish class the next morning. At midnight, I said hi and also mentioned that I was about to go to bed. They kept talking and playing music until some time between 12:30am and 1am as if I wasn't there.
On a weekday in the mid afternoon while I was taking a nap, Sally came into my room without asking, woke me up from my nap, and insisted I water the plant. She could have texted and said "hey at some point can you help me with the plant?" Nope. She literally barged in unannounced and woke me up to do it.
There were also multiple instances of her going into my room unannounced when I wasn't there, as I would find the windows opened with the shade up.
She kicked a guest of mine out, despite that the policy at the time I booked never said no guests. This is important to me, as I would have booked a different place if it did say no guests. So I thought I could bring a guest over one time in the afternoon for a little while. My friend and I were not behaving loudly, we were quiet and respectful. She kicked her out and said "it says no guests." I didn't argue at the time because I didn't want to argue in front of my friend, but I took a screenshot of the house rules and tried to show Sally later. She refused to look at the screenshot, and said "I don't need to see anything, I know I wrote it in there."
Sally in the beginning asked me to keep the hot water heater nearly off until I had to shower (to save money on her gas bill), at which point I would turn it on and wait a half hour for it to heat up. However, it's a really old heater, and it was situated right below the guest area, so it would leak some gas and often the bathroom and area outside of my room would smell like gas. Nonetheless, I followed this rule until the end, at which point I had had enough of her shit and enough concern for my own health to just leave it on all the time, which helped a little. I still think it's kind of a health hazard how leaky the boiler seems to be because it would straight up smell like gas in the bathroom some times. Also, there were times where I would have wanted to come home and directly showered, and I was unable to.
When I showed up, Sally said I could leave a light on inside near the door if I was going to be out in the evening and coming home later. It is very dark in the house otherwise. On many occasions, I left the light on near the door upon leaving, and upon returning, it would be pitch black.
TLDR: Sally was really disrespectful in some major ways towards me throughout my stay, and also insisted on things far beyond what was actually written in the policy. I'm actually really angry that I gave her my money, and I almost never feel that way about paying for services.