Me and my girlfriend spent our fall break in Annette and Scott's place. Their house was beautiful, clean and cozy. The location was very good for us, it was about 10-15 minutes away from La Jolla beach.
Annette asked us small talk questions like "where are you going?" or "did you have a good time?" but she did not seem at all interested in the answer or continuing the conversation. She just asked us those questions to be nice and polite and she was.
The other thing that was a bit off to us was that we had some privacy issues. We had a road trip to San Diego and we had some food that had been in our car for a day and had gone bad. So I asked Annette if I can throw the food away in her trashcan and she kindly said that I can do that in the garage's trashcan. Then I asked her if I can wash those dirty dishes in her sink and she said don't do that and we'll take care of it some time later. Then I went to the beach and came back to see those dishes clean on my bed in my private room. I don't know if this is common in Airbnb for the host to go in your room when you are not home. It had never happened to me with my previous hosts and I don't think that I'm ok with that. I appreciate the clean dishes very much but I don't appreciate the violation of my privacy.