I agree with your review comments there, @Huma0 .. the majority of my guests do leave lovely reviews, and I don't push it when I have had less than adorable guests (which is happily quite rare).. because, likewise, they tend to be the ones that don't leave a review, or if they did, would go out of their way to find fault where none actually exists! And I feel that if I pushed them about it, they'd leave a lousy one just to spite me, so best left unsaid... I've heard one 'overly entitled' guest carry on at her boyfriend about what a s... bed it was and how she can't wait to sleep in her own bed again... and hey, in reality, this was about her hangover, not the near new bed that everyone else tells me they love, if they say anything at all... This girl didn't know I heard her comment, and she was one of the mere handful of less wonderful guests in my 5.5 years... was very noisy when she got back from a birthday party at 3am... I was very fortunate that people in the adjacent unit were family of the birthday girl, so more tolerant of this behaviour than total strangers would have been. This girl did not leave a review, although she assured me she would (without my asking) as they left. Her boyfriend is a Qantas pilot.... I sincerely believe (hope!) he is the one with the brains in that relationship!
On the other hand, one of the many more delightful couples who stayed recently, assured me they would be writing a lovely review, so I was surprised that the two weeks expired, and no review, although I had done one for them of course. He emailed me shortly after, profusely apologetic as he had started a new job and was very focussed on that for a while, but offered to do an email review that I could quote as a recent testimonial in my private website, as an alternative, which I really appreciated. They had also left beautiful comments in my guest book. This is what hosting is about, in my opinion: meeting lovely people (and in my case, often their lovely pets as well), making new friends, learning about interesting lives and travel experiences! The cranky ones tend to hide and not want to talk anyway, so that makes it easier, ha!