How should I review a creepy guy?

Heather-And-Mario0
Level 2
Puurs, Belgium

How should I review a creepy guy?

Hello Everyone,

Last sunday we (my husband and I) had a man check in and he stayed with us for 5 nights.

Right away I could feel he was a bit bizarre. He was a mooch, and that was super annoying but here are the creepy parts..

2 hours after he checked in we could hear him masturbating. in the middle of the night we were woken up by his masturbating again. He followed me around the house. If i went upstairs, 5 minutes later he was upstairs. if i went downstairs, 5 minutes later he was downstairs. In the mornings my husband leaves for work by 6 which left us in the house alone. I was so uncomfortable that stayed in my room til he left, even being late to class 2 days in a row. I just had a sincerely bad vibe with this guy. My husband also, in fact he almost kicked him out halfway through his stay! He checked out this morning, thank god. again to avoid being with him i left a note to drop the key in the mailbox and have a nice weekend. when i returned home i saw that he wrote on the note Thanks, LOVE, Aucke.

Why do you write LOVE to a host. would you do this in a hotel or even with a married friend? No.

Now i have to write a review for this guy. I dont want to over react, but i dont want him creeping out future hosts. this week was not fun for us. if he would have been our first guest we would have cancelled our AIRBNB account immediatly. 

The mooching was also a problem, although not creepy. he requested to use our other room for better wifi connection after he already dirtied the sheets in the other room. (the room he moved to is much larger and we charge 10 euros more per night but he took it for free).he saw me drinking a beer and says, "oooh that looks good can i have one". He asked to use our toothpaste. he parked in our driveway, so close to the house that we couldnt get our bikes out. he was lurking around and we both felt uncomfortable. 

I am writing this for advise from more seasoned hosts, what to do now.. how to write a review. any input would be helpful. 

And for the record we have had 10 guests before him all wonderful, normal, people.

 

 

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Charisse3
Level 2
Flagstaff, AZ

Hi- I am checking out the forum bc I had a similar issue for the first time a couple days ago. I am a 53 yr old female single host. I had a 28 yr old guy instant book same day and I messaged him thanks and room is ready after 4 pm. He shows up at my house at 12 and parks in front and messages me asking to check in early. I happened to have the room ready but my house was not cleaned up yet. I advised him of this and said he could check in early. He comes to the door and he is weird- I mean, awkward vibe, slow to speak, staring into my private bedroom as we walk by to go to the airbnb room. I felt weird having him in my home. Then he wants to help me clean up apples from the backyard- also weird (why???). All the while, I can't get an idea about what his plans are, what happened to his brother who he says he was traveling with (they had a fight). His conversational ability was off. I'm thinking, ok, maybe he is on the autisms spectrum or something. I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. He is hanging out in my dining room, I list kitchen as common area. He is not renting the home- I rent out the master bed/bath only. I leave, bc I'm uncomfortable with him in my home, and he texts me asking about how to lock up (that info was all sent to him a few hours earlier). I respond and he sends me this text: "Also this probably sounds silly but wanted to ask if it's just you here? I looked over the details for the place but the airbnb app crashes sometimes. haha" At this point all my hairs are standing on end and I am full on freaked out. After polling my friends, I decide not to answer this. Later he asks me if that is my playstation in the living room (not a common area). I respond simply "no". Meanwhile my sister looks him up on Facebook and he has xxx rated video game screenshots, pictures of himself in front of a wall of porn pictures, lots of pics of his snake killing its prey. Just creepy to me. I absolutely do not want to be in my home with this guy bc he has creeped me out already and now I know this about him. I stay away for several hours and have a guy friend come over and watch some Netflix shows with me. This guest sits at my dining room table the entire time, looking at his phone, a magazine, and the TV from across the room. My friend is also creeped out. Says he was following me with his eyes in a predatory way. My friend is 6'3 and the guest was 6'6. My friend said he was nervous around the guy. At about nine, when my friend leaves, I also leave and stay at a friends with my dog, bc no way am I going to be in my home with this guy. I told him he needs to be out by 11. He was out on time, thank god. Now I have the issue of how to review him, and how to and should I, report him to airbnb. I don't want this creepy guy inflicting himself on other hosts. Also, he supposedly has two reviews (there was only one when he booked) and one host rec. but I can't open either of them for some reason.

Victoria567
Level 10
Scotland, United Kingdom

Hi@Charisse

Please leave this chap an honest review of his actual behaviour.

Leave out your opinions of being a creep as its your opinion and for him this is normal.

Leave an honest review that is factual and not about your feelings.

Anyone Reading the facts stated in your review will be able to to get the message loud and clear that this is not someone they would feel comfortable with.

Hosts should write honest reviews and none of these vague rubbishy host reviews that say..... Best suited to a hotel!.......Er Hello! I use hotels as well as using air bnb so what's all this double speak all about.'

 

Say clearly what the guest did or did not do in your home!