Post by High Priestess on Feb 16, 2016 5:28:53 GMT
Lynda shared Feb 9 2016
Hi everyone,
Just found my latest guest has stuck laminated A4 papers all over my walls and doors downstairs.
She booked the unit to 'study' away from 3 very loud ( they came when she moved in) children. Which I completely understand.
The unit now looks like a university lecture room including a white board.
I've told her that she will have to pay for damage to the walls, and that she had to take them down off my sliding glass doors (they are opaque and treated with a coating.
She seems a bit perturbed at being asked, insisting that she has them on her walls at home and never any damage.
Thoughts people?
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Deborah
Deborah6 days ago
This is an example of why I have a house rule stating that guests may not put up things on their room wall, ---- I have had the problem you are experiencing occur in the past, and I got a new rule from it. Which helps explain why many of the most experienced hosts have longer sets of rules.
Anyhow--- I would just tell the guest (remind her) that she is not at her home, she is at YOUR home , and you need to ask her to remove all it Es from walls and not put any more up. Assess after this is done if there is damage.
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Deborah
Deborah6 days ago
Remove all items from walls----
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Lynda
Lynda6 days ago
Hi Deborah,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes I have had a word with her and she has removed the ones off the opaque doors.
Aren't people strange?
Seriously, who would dream of sticking things to their hosts walls?
We shall be making her pay if any of the paint comes off the walls.
How do I make her cough up? Any ideas?
Trying to stay positive
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helga
helga6 days ago
Lynda, that's a nee one for me even after many years. I had stickers on fridge or door frames when hosting kids but not adults. Take pictures, send her a message now via airbnb to create evidence and advice her to take everything down very carefully as all damages have to be paid. When there is damage, make a claim via the resolution center.
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Lynda
Lynda5 days ago
Thanks for your kind advise Helga,
Yes I think I will send a message via Airbnb. I have taken photos but I am all over the place with my thoughts about what to do.
I do not wish her stay to be unpleasant. She has taken the ones down on the doors which was my main complaint at the time of confronting her.
The others on the walls were already up, and I told her that damage would have to be paid for. She has left them up, I haven't said anything further.
Would you make her take them down now - or allow her to complete her studies ( they are all student notes and drawings of medical procedures etc)
If damage is done I'm guessing it will be the same damage in a week.
Like you, I have never come across this before.
I must say people amaze me - I would never dream of doing this anywhere, especially not someone's home.
Thanks again Helga, I will put something in writing.
Lyn
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helga
helga5 days ago
Lynda, there is a kind of mastic to stick paper or pictures to walls that is supposed to leave no traces on walls or wall paper. Maybe she used that. It's not heat resistant- I used it once on a door to the outside and in a hot summer it melted down and I had to repaint the door in the end. Mybe you cn tell her to leave those on normal walls for the moment on her risk but to take down whatever is over a heating or exposed to direct sunlight. If tbere is damage, she will have to bear the costs. - maybe too much tv? All those experts and police forces write on glass walls and have huge boards. Never seemed practicall to me, I prefer sheets of normal sized paper, in stacks ;-)) But the expert version looks so cool. Maybe you should provide those easy to wipe whiteboard markets to write on the window. Writing on glass seems the latest fad in tv shows. ;-)
Hi everyone,
Just found my latest guest has stuck laminated A4 papers all over my walls and doors downstairs.
She booked the unit to 'study' away from 3 very loud ( they came when she moved in) children. Which I completely understand.
The unit now looks like a university lecture room including a white board.
I've told her that she will have to pay for damage to the walls, and that she had to take them down off my sliding glass doors (they are opaque and treated with a coating.
She seems a bit perturbed at being asked, insisting that she has them on her walls at home and never any damage.
Thoughts people?
5 comments
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Deborah
Deborah6 days ago
This is an example of why I have a house rule stating that guests may not put up things on their room wall, ---- I have had the problem you are experiencing occur in the past, and I got a new rule from it. Which helps explain why many of the most experienced hosts have longer sets of rules.
Anyhow--- I would just tell the guest (remind her) that she is not at her home, she is at YOUR home , and you need to ask her to remove all it Es from walls and not put any more up. Assess after this is done if there is damage.
Reply Like
Deborah
Deborah6 days ago
Remove all items from walls----
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Lynda
Lynda6 days ago
Hi Deborah,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes I have had a word with her and she has removed the ones off the opaque doors.
Aren't people strange?
Seriously, who would dream of sticking things to their hosts walls?
We shall be making her pay if any of the paint comes off the walls.
How do I make her cough up? Any ideas?
Trying to stay positive
Reply Like
helga
helga6 days ago
Lynda, that's a nee one for me even after many years. I had stickers on fridge or door frames when hosting kids but not adults. Take pictures, send her a message now via airbnb to create evidence and advice her to take everything down very carefully as all damages have to be paid. When there is damage, make a claim via the resolution center.
Reply Like
Lynda
Lynda5 days ago
Thanks for your kind advise Helga,
Yes I think I will send a message via Airbnb. I have taken photos but I am all over the place with my thoughts about what to do.
I do not wish her stay to be unpleasant. She has taken the ones down on the doors which was my main complaint at the time of confronting her.
The others on the walls were already up, and I told her that damage would have to be paid for. She has left them up, I haven't said anything further.
Would you make her take them down now - or allow her to complete her studies ( they are all student notes and drawings of medical procedures etc)
If damage is done I'm guessing it will be the same damage in a week.
Like you, I have never come across this before.
I must say people amaze me - I would never dream of doing this anywhere, especially not someone's home.
Thanks again Helga, I will put something in writing.
Lyn
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helga
helga5 days ago
Lynda, there is a kind of mastic to stick paper or pictures to walls that is supposed to leave no traces on walls or wall paper. Maybe she used that. It's not heat resistant- I used it once on a door to the outside and in a hot summer it melted down and I had to repaint the door in the end. Mybe you cn tell her to leave those on normal walls for the moment on her risk but to take down whatever is over a heating or exposed to direct sunlight. If tbere is damage, she will have to bear the costs. - maybe too much tv? All those experts and police forces write on glass walls and have huge boards. Never seemed practicall to me, I prefer sheets of normal sized paper, in stacks ;-)) But the expert version looks so cool. Maybe you should provide those easy to wipe whiteboard markets to write on the window. Writing on glass seems the latest fad in tv shows. ;-)