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by gameshot911 438 days ago
Were 10 people in fact staying when the listing max was 8?
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Many hosts consider anyone entering the unit , even just for lunch or dinner, to count against the listing "max", and accuse you of having a party. and some are quite big brotherish about monitoring.
No, a couple friends who lived in town stopped by for an hour.
Last month a first time host confabulated $1200 of maintenance charges. Having left the property already, I was in no position to produce evidence that they were fake. Arbitration was hopeless, I canceled my card and won't be using Airbnb again.
Funnily enough I went through something similar 3 weeks ago at an Airbnb in France.

The host retaliated because we had the audacity to tell her that the place was unclean when we checked in. She claimed 2000$ of fabricated damage and as you Airbnb sided with the host initially.

It's only because I lost 3 hours of my time with support and took a thousands of screenshot from our Messages that I got them to drop that charge.

I also issued a Chargeback with my credit card for the dirty place.

But yeah, this is done for me as well. I had 20+ stays but I will never , absolutely never use them again. My time is worth something and this Airbnb destroyed our holiday and took way too much of my time to handle.