The live-in host sent me what's app messages that I was "walking beside her room in the middle of the night". But actually, I was walking around the building to take photos and video of the state of the microwave (maybe cleaned in 2020), fridge (full on mould in open container). I sent a video of the microwave to airbnb to prove this to airbnb. Clearly, in order to take the video of the putrid and unsanitary kitchen, I had to walk down the stairs past the corridor leading to the kitchen. In that event, I passed several doors, one of which is the room of the host. Never did I stay outside any room, nor did I make a loud noise, if anything I aimed to be as surreptitious as possible. Clearly, it is untenable on the part of the host to prevent the guest from moving through the house at night. Moreover, the live-in host levelled the accusation after I had already reported the lack of cleanliness to the other host, who agreed to refund my moneny for the remaining two nights. Hence, the live-in host was being defensive and did not want to take any accountability.
Here is the worst part – I had to unclog a “full toilet” using a dirty brush! I could not take a video of this process as it was disgusting. Naturally, I therefore did not have the ability to eat anything afterwards! I awoke, quite understandably, hungry in the middle of the night and I went downstairs to have the fruit I had placed on the table (a nectarine and a peach). Neither were there.
I paced up and down the stairs, wondering what could have happened to my fruit and how I managed to find such a dreadful place. I took video of the fridge and microwave. Shortly thereafter, the live in host emerged from the end of the corridor and greeted me. I explained what had happened. She denied that anyone could ever take my fruit, though I knew I had left it there. I was left astonished when she first admitted the toilet may have been clogged, as "there were 6 people living in the house", she said. She showed me an outside toilet, in the garden, which was not clogged, but not really clean, compared to the one upstairs.
Yet the host’s tone changed to outright defensive when I said I wanted a discount for having cleaned her toilet. She said there was never any clogged toilet, because she had not seen it. She turned away for me towards her room, I was in disbelief. She said I can write in the airbnb app, but that she could not assist me.
It was then, as I made my way upstairs that she accused me of using drugs, on the basis she could "see" I was using substances. In my view, she was searching for a convenient excuse to discredit me. Also for her to claim she could “see” I was on drugs is a certain type of profiling, based perhaps on my physical appearance – I am a person of African descent.
I returned to my room. No long after, the host came all the way to my door and said she found my fruit. I was delighted, but to my dismay, when I opened the door, she only had my pretzels and nuts, not the fruit. I told her this was not fruit, but she insisted that I take it and she handed it to me. I told her I rather keep this in the kitchen, but she went downstairs. The live in host accused me of being threatening to her the next morning, via messaging app. However, she came to my room to knock. This makes zero sense, as she ought to have kept away from me, were I truly such a threat to her.
After the other host had refunded me for the remaining nights, he told me on the app “no need for further action” after I said his cohost accused me of being a threat. The other host then also messaged me later, personally, with an audio message. I ignored this, as I did not want any more communication from them, but they insisted on contacting me, after I had already left.