@Elaine701
I agree with everything you've written above. I guess I have occasionally experienced the same when a guest had booked a room but then wants a second guest to join them. In the majority of cases, the guests have no problem with the extra person fee but some cannot seem to understand why they should pay more when they are staying in the same room. Of course, they don't notice that they are using extra towels, taking extra showers, doing more cooking, generally creating more mess. Yes, we are in the hospitality business so if we do what we do well, the guests will forget about that extra fee and feel like they got good value.
However, it's not that sort of issue that I'm referring to here, but more the guests who drive you to the end of your tether, the ones that make you question why you chose to be in the hospitality business in the first place and when you feel that no amount of money in the world would be enough to make you host them again!
I've had a few guests who were super annoying (sometimes you need really need a poker face when hosting a homeshare) messy, noisy, breaking things all the time or ignoring several house rules, but only a few incidences where I've desperately wanted the guests to leave.
1. The couple I mentioned to @Clara116 above. I cannot describe how truly awful they were without writing an essay, but the other guests staying described them as "the most negative people I have ever met," and "simply vile" respectively. I put up with them because I was still green, but if it happened now, they would be out on their backsides without a shadow of a doubt.
2. Crazy 'condom girl': https://community.withairbnb.com/t5/Hosting/Condom-Girl-AKA-My-Weirdest-Guest/m-p/1223607#M294344
Evicted.
3. Totally insane, unhinged and extremely needy guest who luckily decided herself to go early but then wanted to come back. No way. I won't go into all the details (another essay) but this young lady was so clingy, she actually used to wait outside the bathroom for me so I couldn't escape!
Now, I know you are all about weeding out these nightmare guests so that they never end up staying. Were there any red flags?
1. Not when they booked. Nice, sane sounding message and loads of positive reviews. The red flags started appearing later in the correspondence. I guess I could have cancelled, but it wasn't IB and I didn't want to be penalised. I had no idea how bad it was going to get though.
2. Yes, potentially, but nothing major and no indication of what kind of crazy I would be dealing with.
3. None at all until the day of arrival when she messaged me to let me know she was coming three hours ahead of the check in time, to which of course I said no. It was only when she arrived that I realised she was out of her mind.