@J-Renato0 That is my life experience, too. Good people don't feel the need to tell you they are good. You see that by their actions.
One of the worst experiences I've had is with a little cabin next door to me that I rent out on a long term basis (no Airbnb) for the out-of-country owner. This works well for both of us, as she trusts me and I have input in deciding who is living right next door to me. I rented the place 2 seasons ago to a young woman who presented herself well, was super friendly, etc. I had shown the place to a couple of other people, and while they said they'd love to live there and it was super cute, they said it just wasn't big enough for all their stuff. The place is fully furnished, it's a tiny studio cabin, and there is no storage space, so whoever lives there needs to be a minimalist.
So I rented her the place, and she proceeded to arrive with truckload after truckload of stuff. She had the cabin so crammed with her stuff that was literally no room to walk around, just snake through the narrow spaces. On top of that, she was super dirty. At one point I told her that it looked like five 15 year old crackheads were living there and that if that is the way she lives, she'd have to start looking for another place. She assured me that she was just "sorting things" and that she was going to be taking a lot to the second hand store and the dump. Nope. She lived like that in there for about 9 months. Then she asked if she could leave her stuff there for the summer while she went to the US. The owner and I discussed it and decided she could pay 1/2 the normal rent and leave her stuff there on the condition that it was all packed up neatly so it could be easily moved, as there were renos that had to be done inside. Also she had to leave it super clean, just like it was when she moved in.
She assured me she would- then 2 days before she was ready to leave, I saw that NOTHING had been packed up, NOTHING had been cleaned. She assured me that a friend was coming to help her, told me not to stress out, gave me hugs and kisses and told me she was a really good person.
She left it a pigsty, I spent 2 days cleaning a 4 mtr x 5 mtr cabin and took loads of garbage to the dump. She had given me only half the rent for the summer, assuring me she'd send the rest. She never did. I removed the only expensive items she had- 4 surfboards and big toolbox full of tools (belonging to her boyfriend) and we hid them in a friend's garage. Sure enough, she came back with all kinds of excuses why she couldn't send the money, still didn't have it. Told her to get all her stuff out of the house and she'd get her surfboards back when she came up with the rent for storing her stuff for 3 months longer than she originally said with no payment.
She kept assuring me that she was a good person. I told her good people don't behave like she does, that she is delusional. 2 months later, she finally came up with the money owed when her boyfriend showed up in town and wanted his toolbox back and 2 of the surfboards that were his. But before that, she had the gall to email the owner asking her to just forgive all the rent owed, because she was poor and a really good person.
When I gave her back the boards and box, she hugged me and told me again that she really is a good person.
