Beware: Unstable host
I wish Airbnb implemented a policy for checking the hosts for being mentally stable. Because Nadia almost threw a coffee maker at my head.
The story: my roommate and I (the previous review is from my roommate Liza, so by now we have obviously changed our minds about Nadia) were looking for a long term rental and came across this place and it seemed like a great match. Nadia acted like she didn’t really want people staying at her place long term and seemed to look down on us because she gave us a monthly discount (which was agreed upon mutually) but since this is her first time (and hopefully last) being an Airbnb host, we thought she just worried about the apartment. We offered to book it for 6 months and she refused, saying one-by-one is better. Okay, no problem we did that, but she asked us to pay 2 weeks before the end of the term.. okay we did that too. Then additional costs for heater were added that we didn’t know about from the beginning, but again we agreed. Every time she came to the apartment she acted like it’s her own, which it is, but meaning she’d just start going to my bedroom and bathroom, opening drawers, looking for her things that she left at the apartment, which is kind of a big no-no for hosts to do, but again we are quite easy going so it didn’t bother us too much. Also a very big problem was that her English is really bad and often we couldn’t understand her at all and she was unwilling to explain herself better, using half-French and expecting us to understand.
Overall we stayed at Nadia’s apartment for 2 months. Closer to the end of our stay we realized we have to leave Turkey because of the pandemic and the rules in the country were getting stricter. So we told her that we wanted to book until December 20th and our previous stay would end on December 5th, we told her around the end of October so it was plenty of time in advance (even though on Airbnb we don’t have to give notice) and apologized for it but the pandemic dictates its own circumstances.
This is when the interesting things started happening: she said okay no problem, then started getting mad, saying we lied to her by promising to book for 6 months (which in the beginning she refused to do herself). We explained the circumstances again. Then she said okay but you pay the daily price and raised the daily price which became almost twice as expensive as we used to pay. So said it’s too expensive for us, and we will be leaving on December 5th, which is the last day she paid for. At this time Turkey has implemented a curfew for the weekend and Turkish residents aren’t allowed to go outside all weekend, however, tourists, like us can go outside freely. December 5th was a Saturday, so she said, leave on Friday or pay for 2 extra nights and leave on Monday because she wanted to check the apartment and she can’t leave the house on the weekend. And she said that on Wednesday. That was completely unfair but by then we were so fed up with her that just decided to leave on Friday, and had to pack our things hastily in 1 day. On Friday she came with her husband to check the condition of the house. Obviously we didn’t have time to clean thoroughly having to move out so quickly. We could tell she was pissed, and then she just started trying to pick a fight with no reason and it quickly escalated. First she said that the house was dirty. We even offered to pay for cleaning then! But she said it’s not about money, it’s that only ‘uneducated’ people like us leave a house in an unclean condition and that we are dirty and uneducated and she’s not (so she’s better I guess 😂). Then she said that we are just bad people who pretended to be kind and bla bla bla she chose us out of many candidates for rent (it was strict quarantine in Turkey and low season and almost no tourists) who were all willing to pay a lot more but she liked us specifically and now it turned out it was all a lie 🙄.