I m new as a host too. I and my husband own a house in Denver and are listing one private room on Airbnb. This guy sketched us out. On his profile, he described himself as a business professional. He always walks around half naked, not to an unacceptable point, but makes me very uncomfortable. My husband sent him a message suggesting him to put on more clothes, he just ignored it and kept doing this. Not to mention he used our drink and food from the fridge without asking. He also moved our furnitures in common area around without permission. He asked me if we have a lemonade jar, I told him we did not have it. Then he grabbed the coffee pot from our coffee maker and put his instant coffee in it and put it in the fridge... I was surprised for a moment that our coffee pot is missing. I called on him and he said since we did not have another container for him, he figured it is the only option. Then it came to the point that he asks to move our desk to his room, I mean if a nice guest asks politely, normally we would love to help him move it, but to this guy, I kept silent. Then he went to his room and cursed “this is a piece of **bleep**” , yes, that is the exact words I heard.
Well, if we can let all the small things above go, we seriously suspect that he is a drug addict, I mean bad drugs, not weed. The first night was already sketchy, I and my husband both sensed it. He appeared to be super stoned. But we didn’t smell weed, so we are scared it might be some hard drugs. The second day, he was talking to some girl on the speakerphone for two hours very loudly to the point that it was very hard for me to focus on my work. I heard words like heroin, cocaine and cops and no drugs anymore.... so I m more sure that he is a drug addict. But again, I don’t have any solid evidence.
This guy is also a big liar. He was on some sort of roommate interview phone call, and described us as his roommate and trying to get my husband to provide a good reference for him on the phone. My husband felt weird about it and then he went on to tell the other side that we think he is a great roommate.
Anyways, He really got on our nerves, so we finally decided to evict him. I don’t want to feel like a prisoner in my own house.
We involved Airbnb to help with the situation and even offered to pay him a motel for tonight. We just want this **bleep** out of our house.
We don’t know how Airbnb would handle this yet.