Well, that was stressful and awkward! I'm a host and have been using AirBnB since 2012. This was my first genuinely and consistently unpleasant experience. It saddens me out to write such a negative review.
There were many many spontaneous in person visits by the host (who lives on the property) during my three week long stay. Never texts first or advanced notices. Plus one by a friend looking for a friend who was openly hostile and suspicious. Good times.
The first were normal introduction/ conversation where I thought we got along well enough then it escalated to the requests to immediately come inside (at that moment) to do something. We talked each one through it but I was very unhappy to be put in that position multiple times. Often when I had been sleeping.
I had told her that the visits that were surprise inspections were making me very personally uncomfortable. Knowing that my (reasonable)boundaries were openly unimportant was depressing. I wasn't sure when it would happen again. I was concerned I would be asked for more money since she kept saying my reservation was too long.
The one that really got to me was an instance where she woke me up because she had to come inside to water a plant in one of the bedrooms and check out her place.
I had been sleeping again and was not dressed and did not have contacts/glasses on.
I did directly tell her during the introduction (and every time I saw her) that I'm a night owl and sleep during the day with earplugs.
She just started banging on that door louder for a longer period of time to get me up after I took to long to answer.
I'm not going to speculate here why she chose to do this to me.
As far as the actual house - immaculately clean. I didn't use the TV or have company or play music. The wifi logs you off a lot but everything the house is great otherwise. I was just there to mainly sleep while I worked on my house a few blocks away. I could not stay at my place during the basement work.
There was not another place to stay that fit my search parameters on AirBnB so felt stuck in this tense situation. I paid over $2K for my reservation through the system. My budget did not allow me just go to a hotel. I could have petitioned for an early release hoping for a refund for my remaining days but the timing of that did not work out.