Some of these hosts take pleasure in wrecking your rating. Then you can email them to check your star rating prior to leaving a review for a host. If you have a friend who is a host, make an ‘insta booking’ reservation for far in the future. Guests can only check their star rating with the help of another host. Also, check your star rating because sometimes they’ll leave a nice review but hit you with low stars. Otherwise you play all your cards and they say anything. The lesson I learned is to not leave a review until AFTER the host does.

I left him a good review and right after that he left me a terrible review.

Something like this has happened with a previous host, but not as bad. He also got testy that I haven’t been to his cafe yet. The previous evening he went off on me for leaving the exterior light on during the day. Now I know I’m going to get a negative review for not following unstated house rules.

I went in to get the cat some water and when I came back the owner had the plate of paper cat food in his hand and started ranting about how feeding cats is forbidden! This is on an island with many cats, and they are beloved.

The owner has spies and one of them tipped him off. This is not as bad as some others, but just this morning I was feeding a cat on the street near the Airbnb.

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