Rats!
Communication was great. He was very responsive on how to get in where to go seemed like a nice person from our initial encounter. Arriving on the property there were so many rats outside just running on the fence, the porch, under my car and feet, everywhere!
Upon arriving we didn't know we had to go directly upstairs, I also wish that was clear in the instructions. We ended up learning that later, but we read the entire policy for this residence and understood that there was a no smoking policy. It was very clear, clean cut in caps and we respected that.
I felt uncomfortable and didn't want to stay there anymore. I told my partner we should leave because that's how uncomfortable I was with the outside environment. They were not just regular rats they move very fast, long tails about NYC subway size. I went ahead and left the same night I checked in. We didn't even sit in the bed, use the shower or anything, we were there about 1.5 hours max. So we went back outside, gathered our things and left. Any sane person would have saw that the facility was not used in any way.
I contacted Dennis respectfully the morning if and told him how I felt and asked even for a partial refund because we didn't stay at all.
Now he became irrational and I guess he felt threatened because his residence literally was not suitable and tried to accuse me of smoking in the room? It was clear we couldn't smoke in there at all we went outside because that is what respectful people do & That's when it got bad for me because that's how I kept seeing the rats. All outside when I was out there.
He declined, he threatened with a 200$ smoking fee and said I was lucky he didn't charge me for that, and accused me of smoking not only that then told me how much he had to pay his cleaning people to remove the "smoke smell" from the room when we absolutely didn't smoke out there. That was a clear threat, sort of no there is no partial refund because I had to pay this because you did this. Very childish back and forth in the airbnb messages.
There are cameras on his residence and he can easily play the footage back and see us stepping outside to smoke and you'll probably also see how terrified I was of those fat ass rats.
Maybe the rats are not his fault but He came off as an understanding host at first, but after noticing that this is probably a money chase, I personally did not even want to stay there anymore and If i left the same night I checked in, any reasonable person who is respectful all around would have been more understanding.
I was not upset at all, I just will never stay here again and Im happy that this has opened my eyes to AIRBNB and the kind of hosts they have. Very blessed to say I still enjoyed my night, just had to get out of there.