How to rate guests for a first time host

How to rate guests for a first time host

Hi! I just starting hosting and my first guests seemed to me what would be rude and definitely not 5 star guests. I’m having trouble deciding what to rate them because I have not had any other guests, nor did I expect to encounter some of the issues that I had with them. They rented a private room in our home, but would use the common area as an office and be on conference calls on speaker all day. They used our kitchen during regular meal times and cooked very very smelly meals that have taken me lots of scrubbing to get out. I had to clean up many spills from them. They tried to go into other rooms to keep their bags there. They turned up the temperature 6 deg in the winter. They left lights on when they would leave. They requested many extra things like doing laundry and storing things there after checkout. But they were quiet and did all their dishes. I’m just not sure what is appropriate since we didn’t have a “rule book” written, but a lot of these seemed like common sense of what to do or not do when you only have a private bedroom. Are all guests like this or was this just weird? 

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@Sandra856 

"I'm 99% sure you can't have more than one profile with uploaded ID"

 

Sadly, that's very far from correct. One "host" I was looking at just recently had 5 different profiles, all under different versions of his actual name - Pat, Patrick, Paddy, Padraic and P - every one of them has the Verified ID stamp. 

@Susan17 I'm sorry to hear that. I was asking /questioning that exact question - asking some of the regulars in the community about it a couple of days ago but no one answered me. That has been the reason why I have ticked the ID box/instant book. I just assumed that it would protect me from guests escaping from bad reviews. That it wasn't possible to upload ID for more than one profile.

Yet another crappy thing in the airbnb system. 

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