Hi Comunity,
I've been an airbnb host for 3 years now, I love being a host, and unfortunately this is my first bad experience with guests and I'm in a dilemma.
My guests are 2 young students, a couple, who has come to do a semester in my city.
I was excited about it, I'm a student myself, it's not the first time I'm having long-term guests, I'm in pretty close touch with my last 3 long-term guests until today and it was pretty sad when they had to leave.
My current guests has arrived at the beginning of the month and will stay for 2 more months. They are nice young people, but the have no sense for a person's space. Since they have arrived I feel like they have taken a lot of my space at home and there's only a little left for me, they don't follow the house rules, although I hate to call it rules, it's mostly common sense - not to leave the lights on, not to leave the boiler switch on, I have asked several times to keep the doors closed for I have pets, but several times a day I find myself closing doors and switching lights of.
They cook meat and fish although I'm vegan and I asked to respect that 😞
The girl walks around the house with her music on speakers, or on-speaker phone calls
They invited people to my apartment at 12:30 at night without a notice
I have no room in my fridge. That sounds ridiculous but I do have no room for my stuff
When they return from the beach they hang their cloths full of beach sand just like that, without even shaking some of the sand off, and since it swifts easily across the apartment, I find myself cleaning sand off the couch, the tables, my bed
The guy walks around in his boxers or starting random conversations with me wrapped only in a towel, sometimes his focus shifts to keeping the towel from falling off, and it it's clear he is not comfortable with that, and mostly I'm not comfortable with that, so why would he put himself in that situation in the first place?
I don't know, I'm a little confused since I have never been in that situation before. I was never before so specific about things that bother me, and I feel like those things are only piling up. I don't want to be the one that walks after them pointing out what they are doing wrong, I'm not their boss, nor their mother, and mostly because it will exhaust me and make them feel unwelcome. I also don't want to set rules needs to be follow because I'm used to a more harmonic way of sharing a space together.
I don’t feel at home in my own home, I’m thinking twice before returning home, and it distracts me from studying. Therefore I'm strongly thinking about shorting they're stay here, refunding the rest of their money and giving them time to find a different place. It saddens me to do so, but I see no other way.
What would you have done?