Hi! I am a new host (3 weeks) that rents out one bedroom (2 guests, full size bed) in my home. There is one shared bath and the the living room/dining room/kitchen are all shared spaces. I had my first bad guest experience a few days ago.
After accommodating a last minute request (10:30 pm same day) a guest showed up with 3 people in their party for a listing that can clearly only accomodate two. I made my first mistake when I let them stay even though they had more people than my listing would accommodate. They claimed that they were just going to all sleep together in the double bed. They ended up being loud until past two in the morning, which I didn't mention to them and just tried to excuse as maybe the result of travel/different time zones etc.
The real problem came the second night when they decided to be intimate with their bedroom door wide open and then to move that intimacy to the sofa in my open concewpt living room! I was home and awake for all of this. They only stopped when I walked through the room. They left the next morning and I found trash and crumbs and food all over my home.
I left them an honest reveiw, sighting the sex in the living room while I was home as disrespectful. They have since contacted me via text and via the app to very vocally complain about my rude review. This situation is over and done with (I successfully took apart and laundered the entire sofa...) but I would love the community's perspective on this issue.
My opinion is: I don't mind that guests are intimate in the private room. They are likely on vacation after all. But I am actively living in my home while sharing it with guests and that makes sex in public/shared areas something I find INCREDIBLY disrespectful and cause for a 1 star review. Have you had issues with this? How did you handle them? Have you ever asked guests to leave?
