If you would like to rent from a host who upholds **ethical business practices**, I strongly recommend NOT RENTING FROM HIM.

This room was not available, so he offered to have me stay in a similar room. HOWEVER - after checking in, he emailed me (8:27pm) that he would have to HAVE ME MOVE TO ANOTHER BUILDING HALFWAY THROUGH MY RESERVATION. I checked in Weds. night and he was moving me Thursday morning. It felt like a classic bait and switch: have single girl traveling alone commit to renting a room, then inform her after the fact that she'd have to move halfway through. "Sorry."

I get it - I am a blonde girl (I am removing my Facebook log in) and it's easy to take advantage of someone who is 1). in a new area for a short time 2.) has already paid 3.)is on a work trip so will be tied up the whole time doing ACTUAL work & too busy to start her own legal investigation 4.) is at the whim of the host to have somewhere, literally, to STAY in a strange city, while traveling by herself 5.) is offering only one experience from a guy who has many guests.

I brought the unethical business practices/bait and switch/taking advantage of me piece to his attention, and he tried to play it off like giving me a 3 bedroom apartment was a benefit (I clearly did not intend to book a 3 bedroom and did not care it went for $295 a night). He also offered to move my bag. (Thanks, since I was in CA for work and was up each day at 6am and having meetings until 11pm....so nice of you to shuffle me around and move my bag.) In hindsight, I should have lugged by bag across town and to all of my meetings so that I would have been forced to call AirBnb and report him/ not be a victim to his unethical practices.

Honestly - it's not a great feeling to be taken advantage of, and I felt very unsafe the whole time, knowing he had the keys to the places. I felt very uneasy about the situation (since he had my stuff and I already paid), so I did nothing until returning home now. He seemed nice enough when communicating through email, so it's unfortunate these actions made me feel distrustful of him on the whole. I probably will never use Airbnb again. Horrible experience and probably unable to get a refund ( I did reach out to Airbnb, though, so they probably have not seen my complaint).

I am only speaking from my experience and wanted to share what happened and how it made me feel. I can't help but think he wouldn't have done this to a 200-pound man. Probably should not have linked my account to Facebook. I now understand it's an invitation for being taken advantage of and a liability for me.