1.5/5 stars generously. Note that two of the 14 reviews up right now are from her daughter, which no doubt helps boost the listing.
I enjoyed chatting with family members, meeting their adorable pets, and joining the family for meals which was gracious - at the beginning of my stay I was excited and everyone seemed nice.
However, the main host is variably disrespectful, aggressive, unaccommodating, or upsetting. Here are some select highlights of verbatim interactions during my three month stay.
1) Rude Put-Downs just for me living my life and minding my business
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me: *pours kiwi juice into my cup*
R: Yuck! That smells disgusting. What is that??
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me: *takes leftovers out of the fridge at 9pm since I worked continuously all evening*
R: Ugh! Who eats this late?? Why are you even up?
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me: *turns on AC for the first time in weeks, since it is 84 degrees and I can't focus on my work*
R: Ugh, no wonder our power bill is always so high.
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me: *prepares to leave for work on my first day working in-office*
R: Finally, you're leaving
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2) Strange Racial/Political Comments, unsolicited. Made myself and other guests feel uncomfortable.
"I knew a Chinese person. Nee yo wing wong! That's how they talked haha"
"Do you have a lot of black people where you're from?"
"What race are you? You know you don't look like , right?"
"Do you know what Memorial Day is?" (I'm a lifelong American...so yes.)
"I knew a black person once, who died sometime after getting the COVID vaccine. Who knows what kind of gene editing is going on?? But these days you can't say anything about it..."
3) Mind-boggling Egotism - this incident was hair-pulling-out levels of frustrating.
me: *walks in door in morning after a rough night*
R: Uhm, if you're going to miss Sunday morning breakfast, you need to let me know.
me: Sorry, I had a medical emergency last night and it wasn't on my mind.
R: Ok, but you need to let me know if you're going to miss breakfast. I took your plate out and everything!
me: I know, but I had to be taken to the hospital and it was a whole thing. It was serious.
R: Why didn't you text me?
me: I wasn't in any condition to be texting you... I just told you!
R: If someone was taking you to the hospital, you need to be texting me that you won't make it for breakfast tomorrow.
4) Unaccommodating
On my second day, I mentioned to Ruth I would be bringing in a new chair since the provided one didn't suit me (it is too short for me and lacks any backrest). Immediately I was interrogated with all sorts of questions - Why don't I use the given one? Why don't I go work in the office every day? Why do I have an issue with it when no other guest ever had an issue? Where will I fit the old one and the new one in the room?
5) Accusatory
A few days after I left she let me know that a few of the given washcloths/towels in my room were missing. I searched my luggage and realized I packed one of them by mistake as it looked like mine, but didn't know where the big towel was. I texted her all of this and told her to feel free expense anything missing from my security deposit.
For some reason she verbatim accused me of having deliberately "stolen" her beloved Mike Lindell towel set and also wrote in text to another intern that I stole towels. She wanted to bill me $90 despite me finding it available for $50 online.
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The listing itself was fine but the host was exhausting to interact with and put a damper on the summer for myself and other guests staying there (we all bonded over our shared struggle here together). I wouldn't recommend this booking to anyone unless you will be out of the house 24/7.