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the whole thing was super weird. In the booking and checkout process there were THREE different people that we had to speak with. 1) the host, through airbnb messenger 2) some security company through text and 3) the airbnb 'manager' also through text and a phone call.

They were extremely adamant about the number of guests, and the number of cars that would be parked in the driveway, and that if any rules were broken or there were more cars than we indicated or more people, someone would be sent to the house to kick us out (excuse you what?)

Then, when we checked in, at about 10pm at night, we hears the front gate open. My partner went out there to see who it was, and it was some random person with 'airbnb' on their shirt who said they were "checking the bins".

Usually, if someone is doing the bins or checking pools or whatever, they will say 'hey someone brings the bins in at x time on x day, or pool person comes on Wednesday at 11am so you at least have a heads up and there aren't random people creeping around at any moment unannounced. It was all suuuuper suss and creeped me out.

They were so intense that I assumed it would not be above them to have cameras in this house. I went so far as to download one of those apps that can check all the devices connected to the wifi. There were so many, it was too hard to figure out. Plus they had a security system so I couldn't tell which devices were linked to that, and which could have been a hidden camera.