Help or suggestions for Guest breaking house rules and then leaving a false review

Barry170
Level 1
Nashville, TN

Help or suggestions for Guest breaking house rules and then leaving a false review

Hi everyone.  I'd appreciate any suggestions you may have.  I had a last minute booking for a single guest for my guest bedroom with shared bath, and I delayed my overnight trip out of town to prepare after the previous guest.  I checked to make sure the guest made it into the house easily and had everything he needed.  At 3am, my roommate calls to tell me that there were more than just one guest, in fact a half dozen people partying in my house; and then they fled when they realized my roommate was home.   I packed up and made the 5 hour drive back and asked customer service to intervene with the guest who never answered their calls.  The guest/s had nailed up fabric over my front windows and wrecked my kitchen.  They also left with my key.  I had the locks replaced the next day, and I'm still working on repairs.  I started a resolution ticket to get reimbursed for the lock change.  The worst part has been that the guest left me a poor review with false statements.  This has knocked my rating out of Superhost range.  Is there anything I can do through Airbnb to change this?   I've asked supervisors to call me back with no response.

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Risa13
Level 1
Vancouver, Canada

I am so sorry to hear this happened to you. How awful I don’t have anything to help you with except to say that I totally feel for you. I haven’t had anything that bad happened but I have had one guest who did some damage and I never got the money back even though he sent pictures of the damage actually caused. The resolution center did not help me on this one at all. Sometimes it just doesn’t work in our favor. Keep working on the resolution center make sure you speak to more than just one person there because the sooner you can get it to the highest level. 

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