James at first seemed like a friendly and inviting host to his air bnb, but this was sadly not the case.
Upon arrival, bugs ( ants, spider etc) had infested the house and costed our guests money in groceries. Also, the refrigerator door did not shut all the way due to a gap, and resulted in many frozen/refrigerated groceries to spoil and be ruined. Upon alerting the host of this, he offered no compensation or fix.
A day or so after leaving, we received a call with a very angry and demanding tone to the renters. He claimed the house was left a mess due to a “house party” and requested 250$ extra in cleaning fees. He said if we did not pay then he would report us to air bnb and attempt to take our security deposit. All of this of course was done outside of air bnb software as he sent multiple requests on venmo for this “fee”. After calling air bnb customer support we learned this is against policy.
It would seem that the hosts were attempting to take advantage of a renter and scam them out of money by harassing them on media’s outside of air bnb.
the house itself was a very good option due to location and size (outside of the issues it had), but due to his behavior after we left it became clear that it was not worth it at all.