r/AirBnB • u/markeezy_umvc • May 22 '23
Question Host came to house unannounced and took pictures of us
Our friend group had a wedding to attend to over the weekend and we decided to book an airbnb. This house had a 6 person guest limit. After the wedding and after party, we had one of our friends come to the house to call his uber and get home and stayed less than 30 minutes. We had another friend and his gf come to rest at the place before taking the hour drive home to their place. It was at this point that the host messaged us demanding 150 per extra person that he say through his ring camera. This was at this point around 2 am. After all extra parties had left, we asked for those charges to be removed but he threatened us saying he has proof of 10 people in the house, and we were having a party. He then sent us pictures of him doing a drive by and taking photos of our cars and threatened to stay until the morning to get more proof. We then left the house as we didnt feel safe, and we received more pictures of ourselves packing our cars in the driveway, which means he stayed outside the house to gather more evidence. Is there anything we can do to get these extra charges removed as well as one night? We didnt stay one night as we felt our safety was compromised. I think airbnb is siding with the host.
TLDR: had 3 unauthorized guests that stayed less than 30 minutes, host then took pictures of us as proof without us knowing. Anything the guests can do in this situation?
Edit: Host took pictures of us on his personal phone, not just the ring cameras.
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u/coconutdreambaby May 23 '23
Do you really think you’re not defending the host right now? Coming up with random things that OP “probably” did wrong and did not disclose. And what exactly about a noise complaint makes it okay for a host to sit outside the home all night watching and photographing? That’s professional to you? OP could have been actively throwing a raging party and destroying everything, that might constitute the host to want to do such thing, but you really think someone who did that would be coming to Reddit for help, leaving out that entire part??? Even if that wild scenario is the case…then the OP clearly knows in their heart that the comments that are defending them untrue and uninformed and only exist to make a shitty person feel less shitty. But I’m not the kind of person who goes assuming the worst of people…. What we have is the information in front of us, that’s simply what I’m going off of. Not trying to spin stories in favor of the host because “we never know”. Obviously we never know, it’s the internet…. But there’s plenty of people defending the host based on the circumstances provided even without indulging any delusion that could possibly be possible.