I don't know if anyone has had this kind of experience with Airbnb but let me tell you what I just experienced.
A guest came to stay at my home (I live in the space and rent out a private bedroom and bathroom with a shared livingroom and kitchen).
This guest came and was scheduled to stay for one week.
I usually give my guests lots of space and seldom engage in personal discussions or issues.
I started to feel uncomfortable when this guest started asking me personal questions about my life such as, Do you have a boyfriend and why hasn't he come by to visit you? Has your boyfriend ever abused you?, and is he possessive with you?
He would take a shower in his private bathroom and then come out with just a towel around his waist and sit down to watch television. I expressed my feelings of being uncomfortable with his behaviour and he would pretend to not hear me.
He tried to insinuate that many of my personal habits and ways of doing different activities were unhealthy or wrong and that I should not ask him to clean up after himself when he used the kitchen and left a mess.
The whole visit was strangly uncomfortable but not absolutley wrong or against Airbnb rules....just very weird.
Then, out of the blue he decided to leave one day early.
On the one hand I was relieved to see him go. I checked my Airbnb listing and found that he left me an absolutely horrible review claiming I didn't respect him and treated him poorly and so on.
The very next day two Police officers showed up at my door asking about this guest and if was still staying at my place.
I told the officers that he had left unexpededly the day before and did not know where he went or why.
The Police told me they wanted to find him becasue a woman had filled an attempted rape report against him!
My God I said! and this person was staying in my home and behaving all the time in a way that made me as a woman feel uneasy and concerned.
I contacted Airbnb and talked to a supervisor about what had happened and told them that my security is at risk and that Airbnb is suppose to check on people they send. I had had another visitor earlier this year who came to my place (a woman this time) who was not the person on the profile page that she was using to make the booking. She told me after she arrived that she had used her secretaries profile to make a booking. When I approached Airbnb, all they said they would do is 'look into it' and nothing ever happened about that case.
In regards to this male guest, Airbnb told me that they would not remove this mans negative review against me and they didn't even appologize to me for what could possibly have been a life threatening event for me.
Clearly Airbnb does not respect and has no concerns for the hosts safely and wellfare and all they seem to care about is getting their money and punishing hosts who receive negative reviews from people who are clealy unstable and misrepresented by Airbnb in the first place.
I have come to the point where I have decided to drop Airbnb and simply go back to trying and find a responsible and honest room mate.
BE VERY AWARE IF YOU ARE A HOST, THAT AIRBNB IS NOT PROTECTING YOU AND DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR SAFELTY....PROTECT YOURSELF AT ALL TIMES AND AT THE VERY EARLEST INDICATION OF SOMETHING BEING UNCOMFORTABLE OR WRONG WITH YOUR GUESTS ,CONTACT AIRBNB AND ASK THEM TO LEAVE FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL SAFETY!