I meant that one towel and some of the sheets were black (not brown). I have no idea what that could have been.
Just to be clear, I am not worried about a broken window, I’m worried about my safety. I live on the bottom of the house and my house is 125 feet from the street. I have a dog that will bark fiercely but it a little thing and I do have an alarm system that I always use but I’m 5’ tall and isolated.
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Or worse.
Our lives are a population of one; it’s not always wise to play the odds.
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100% black? Or streaks? Is it possible they replaced the linens with their own that they brought?
Nope, they were definitely my towels and sheets and after pre-treating them and the other stains on the sheets and mattress pad and then using a bleach spray and washing in hot water and bleach it all came clean.
I have no idea what would cause it to be black. I don’t think it was hair dye or tanning. The area on the sheets was where the back would be.
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Maybe this? I was shopping on Amazon last week for some PJs as a gift for a friend. There were some that I was really interested in but when I read the reviews a lot of people were complaining that the black jammies had stained their sheets. They even posted photos of their white sheets with black all over them.
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Thanks, that makes sense.
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This is when you say “So & so was here and clearly enjoyed his short stay”. Then where it says “would you host this guest again? They won’t see your answer” you just say NO. At least you’re safe.
No, there is no ‘code’ that hosts can see what you are saying. Always leave an honest review - and omission is not honest.
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That wouldn’t tell me anything.
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I understand if you choose to say little to nothing given the safety concerns.
But I wonder if you have anything nice to say.
Would it be accurate to say something like (I tried to soften it, add humor but convey the facts):
This guest communicated well and respectfully. Cleanliness was a challenge because the linens, towels, mattress pad were all badly stained but with hard work came clean. Happy ending. Now I have to figure how to get the TV working as this guest disconnected the TV wires. Yikes!
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That’s perfect. Thanks.
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I’ve been curious about the “Would not host again” field. It was changed/diluted during the latest revamp of the review area into the following:
"Would you recommend XXXXX to other Hosts?
Your answer will help us learn more about what makes a great guest. It won’t be published anywhere, and XXXXX can’t read it."
Does anyone know with certainty that a NO response would prevent guests from re-booking your listing?
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I wasn’t aware that they changed the wording. Thanks for the heads up.
I don’t think anyone knows for sure, as Airbnb seems not to disclose that information.
Since they did away with the IB requirements and now it just says guests have to have no negative reviews, I would hope a “Would not recommend” counts as a negative review.
It used to say “would you recommend” when I first started hosting about 5 years ago and then they changed it to “would you host again” at some point and now it’s back to “recommend”. I’m not sure that it really makes any difference though.
Here’s a post about “would you recommend” from 2018:
Apparently most of you have never had a bad scary guest come back. I had a guest who had a huge party - motorcycles up & down my street at 4 AM & if I didn’t live so far out in the boonies I might have called the police- plus I was afraid it would escalate the situation. Three times over the next month I had his party friends stop by the house wanting to rent the place. I do not like having locals rent for this very reason. I was so concerned I stopped doing Airbnb afterwards for 18 months (rented to a long term tenant). YOUR SAFETY IS FIRST. I have not left reviews the 2 times I’ve had local guests who I felt threatened by. I did leave reviews for the other 250+ guests. (By the way I read an article about instances of homicides with Airbnb guests/hosts.)
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I agree that them throwing a big party means they were bad guests, can understand you feeling intimidated about stopping the party and that the friends coming by wanting to rent the place again was annoying, but how is it threatening?
It seems to me that since you let the party go on, the others wouldn’t have any idea that it wasn’t okay, so asking to rent again, while of course you wouldn’t want them to, isn’t threatening or scary.
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“Decline” and “no” are appropriate responses to potential bookings you do not want to have. You can’t blame the advertising platform (airbnb)…
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Why did you allow this? Regarding party guests coming back, as @muddy says, they weren’t to know that you weren’t okay with parties. (Some hosts specifically advertise their rentals as party places).
Can you explain about the occasions when local guests threatened you?
You leave reviews only for good guests? I’m surprised that you do this and don’t warn other hosts about bad ones. 
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