Hi all,
Had a very successful first year renting out our spare room in Wales, UK, superhosts, plenty of repeat stays, 4.98 average, about 92% occupancy month after month - and today had to action our first eviction: 2 overseas college kids studying in Wales on a pre-term jolly around Europe, nipping here and there and using our room as a base. 21 day booking, away for a week on the continent, then back very early hours of the morning with hardly any notice for the UK leg of the Grand Tour. They knocked me up at 5am having forgot their key, then pulled an expensive rainfall showerhead off the bathroom wall at 7.30 am. At 7.45 am I gave them notice they were to have vacated the property by 6pm and immediately phoned Airbnb customer services and said that unless they upheld my decision, they would be removed at 6pm by the police. They did and notified the guests by 7.50 am they were to leave, which they accepted without argument.
At 5.15pm, having left their room like a **bleep** pit, they left in a taxi.
Whilst not nice having to do that, they clearly had an absence of compassion or respect for my home, and it was a sense of 'this doesn't feel at all good' that made me decide on the spot they were to go. I was gladthat Airbnb stood by me.
We've closed our room for a few days to get over it!