Melissa Yao is not a host, in my experience. She wrote a couple of days before my trip to ask what time I would arrive. I wrote back a detailed message with arrival date which ended with the statement "According to the trip planner I should be at the airBnb by about 9:30 pm. Will that be OK?" Her response was "Good to know". I arrived in the rain at the time I predicted, knocked on the locked front door, found no host, called Melissa and received no answer. Finally I went to the back of the house, found an unlocked door, and wandered around knocking on closed doors till I found a resident who was willing to help me. He also was unable to text or call Melissa but took me around the house to find an empty room ( the one I was knocking on before) and suggested that it seemed available. Two hours later (around midnight) Melissa responded with a text message "is this Sid?" after I was settled in, no thanks to her.

A simple message "Come to the back, your room is number 3, and the keys are in a specified place. We'll get together later during your stay" would have saved me a lot of anxiety. " Good to know" is not the response of a host.

The stay was otherwise uneventful. An electrician and a plumber was called to the house to fix problems during my stay. The room is as described, the other tenants are somewhat quiet.

Sid Coon