Host and neighbors ruined what could have been a great weekend. The place looked good, accurate to the pictures and was decently clean except for the refrigerator that was full of old food condiments and had left over beer and spiked seltzers from previous guests and the coffee maker had not been cleaned and had the dirty filter and coffee still in it which was was unpleasant and made the kitchen full of fruit flies.
The property is listed as being able to accommodate 10+ guests. What the host does not tell you is that they do not, nor anyone else for that matter, live there. It is obvious that the neighbors are 100% fed-up with living next to a 24/7 AirBnB. The neighbors called the cops on us multiple times for no justifiable reason. Form the moment I arrived, one of her neighbors pointed at me and shook her head disapprovingly. I was barely getting out of the car. The host specified “no parties” but did not accurately explain the situation. I don’t consider the 10 allowed guests having some drinks and listening to music at a moderate volume on a Friday or Saturday afternoon to be a “party”. If you have a problem with all 10 guests using the backyard simultaneously then
that should of been specified. When the cop came on Saturday afternoon to (very politely) tell us about Friday’s complaints, he knew which gate to come into, he knew the property was an Airbnb, he had already called the host, and he told us it didn’t look like we were doing anything wrong but that these calls happened all the time with this property. In other words, we were taking the burden of previous guests’ actions. The Host tried to contact me while I was in the pool so I did not answer my phone and then showed up with her husband. Walked in to the back yard of the property and basically tried to kick us out. Acted belligerent. Told us that they had been watching us through a previously undisclosed camera which we considered to be an invasion of privacy and did not proceed to calm down until her husband started making inappropriate racial comments about how he thought we “...were obviously Mexican, aren’t you?” And about how this might be the last straw for them to loose their AirBnB host license. It is a nice property and it could have been a nice weekend but the actions of the host and her husband really put a damper on our experience and I had personally never felt so disregarded and offended. Bottom line, If the backyard amenities aren’t to be enjoyed by the amount of guests that the host states in the listing then she should lower the amount of people allowed in the house, state that more clearly, or possibly not rent out the property so often so that the neighbors don’t feel they live next to a hotel. If she and her husband have a problem with Mexicans staying at their property they should state that as well. I am an AirBnB host myself and have worked in Hospitality for 12+ years, there is NOTHING hospitable about this host or this property.