she wasn’t responding to messages concerning my arrival. upon arrival, she tried to tell me (w) i couldn’t stay because i had brought a guest with me (m) despite me having specified that he would be joining me on the reservation. she tried to tell me “the house was a temple” and that was the reasoning he couldn’t stay with me. no where on the listing had it mentioned that this was a “rule” or that the stay was only for one individual. i plead because this was the only place i could get in the area and i couldn’t get a hotel in NY because i’m under 21 and we only needed a place to sleep. eventually after me saying he could sleep on the floor or not in the same room as me, the homeowner agreed to let us stay, but i have a hunch it was only because of their no refund policy and the error on their end, given that if they didn’t let me stay they’d have to give me a full refund. after this she showed us her religious shrine in the living room further emphasizing the home is a temple, which we highly showed our respect and understanding towards, but she then said she’d “kill us” if we disrespected it. once we finally got to the room, the room wasn’t ready for check in, which i had already let them know was fine because we just needed to drop off our bags. the issue, however, was that when we arrived back that night to sleep, there were no blankets or towels for us like they had said would be. we had to sleep in a barren bed with no way to shower, and not so much as a hand towel to use after washing our hands. we were woken up around 6-7am to her loudly deep cleaning the restroom up against our bedroom wall. the room also had kitty litter spread around it and ants all over. i woke up to the ants in bed with me. there was a speaker plugged into the wall that repeated Chinese hymns over and over and the guest rules say we aren’t allowed to touch anything that isn’t ours so we were forced to listen. i told the lady the next morning that we never got our blankets or towels, and she only said “i tried to bring them to you but no one answered” even though we told her we’d be gone until night. she didn’t leave them by the door or anything, and she has a camera in the living room watching over the shrine so i didn’t feel comfortable exploring due to that and the intense house rules saying not to touch anything that isn’t yours (understandable). to top it all off, the night of our stay when we arrived back to sleep, we were greeted by two social workers outside of the house asking if we have any comments on the safety of the children in the neighborhood. when we were finally leaving, she was no where to be found and when i tried to see if anyone was in the house by yelling “hello,” a random man we hadn’t been introduced to was in the house and as we were just ready to get out of there, we left him with the key and departed. overall, it wasn’t a very welcoming, comfortable, or organized experience. we respected their religious boundaries, but we don’t feel as though we were respected as their guests in return.