Dear community of hosts and airbnb employees,
I'm staying in a long term, month long whole space reserved on the airbnb platform.,
The seller wants to "meet me and talk".
What am I supposed to do?
A. Dont meet, and it will lead to retaliatory review, always defaulting to fraudulent false claims of cleaning, and potential slander. This host betrayal is emotionally painful., and airbnb often mishandles this
B. Meet, be friendly, let my guard down, talk shop, try to appease seller's suspicious minds and fears, and then risk not aligning with seller's beliefs in health, , politics, and/or seller will want more, and want to bring contractors in later, inspect, half way through stay etc, etc, etc, and if i protest any sellers wishes and rub his/her ego wrong, it defaults to negative cleaning review attack toward consumer and slander.
Which route should I take that will give the lesser probability of a review attack?
My only new goal now using airbnb, is to avoid slander, review harassment and retaliatory cleaning review against me, the consumer, by uneducated , untrained, immature hosts.
Disclosure:
I reserve space on airbnb to work remote, and be left alone and not harassed by negative cleaning reviews by new DIY cleaning hosts cutting corners, desperate to maximize profits, and who have no experience in owning a hosting rental business...
After 100+ long term stays around the world and back in America post pandemic, I have lost trust in Airbnb to support me, and I know them to betray me, confuse me, give conflicting messages post slander, go back on their word, say one thing and do another, and default to protector and representation of host,.
I have lost trust in hosts.
I have lost joy in using airbnb as a guest long term stay consumer .
i have no trust in the review system and it is used fraudulently, hurtful, used to intimidate the consumer, and is a threat to the consumers safety, well being and mental health. .
