"Your friend did not lose a year of income from being reported for bugs. Your friend is flat out lying to you or you're misremembering."

They cancelled his reservations at the start of the high season and he got maybe 10% of them back after he spent 45 days figuring out and satisfying the airbnb process. We are in an area where most of our guests come from far away rather than make plans at the last minute. Thanks for being as nasty as possible in your reply though. :-(

I'm glad your experience was better.

I'm going to make the unusual recommendation of three stars for the location. I think that's penalty enough because that's actual intentional fraud. The bugs, well, my friend's airbnb was cited for bugs and he basically lost his income for a year and reduced his income forever[1]. It's really the nuclear option, and the owner in your case did respond quickly and appropriately to the report. I just think it's an unfortunate fact of life that sometimes bugs show up despite ones best efforts. So, I guess the question is whether it had bugs due to improper cleaning and maintenance, or bad luck. If the place wasn't clean and the bugs were having a grand time, then fine, strike three, nuke him. But if the place was properly looked after, then I'd just cite the fraud.

[1] His STR is down the road from mine at a beach in a pretty undeveloped part of Mexico. There are bugs outside, if you leave doors open the come in. If you don't leave doors open sometimes they find a way in anyway. The guest, IMO having seen the situation, massively overreacted, but that part is ok. The part that wasn't ok was that airbnb canceled his reservations until he mitigated (thus losing a high season worth of bookings). He had, of course, already mitigated and the problem was already solved, but not following the steps that airbnb required, so he had to pay, to mitigate again, his already bug free house. Due to losing a years worth of bookings, he now refuses to risk it again and shuts down during the summer (bug season) thus reducing his income by 10-20% going forward.

On the plus side, at least they appear to sharpen their knives...

Are you starting to get the sense it's not that weird. 😂

Not exactly common, but yeah, we've all had it happen at various points. And, like many of the reports here, my experience is also that they tend to be big and juicy. No idea on species.

They take a deep breath and send it! 😂

I used to be like OP in terms of sleeping through alarms. Now I need to be up at about 7, but usually get up sometime between 5:45 and 6:30 during the summer. The trick for me was to lean into natural sleeping patterns. Your brain goes through cycles. I just started getting up when I cycled through the least deep part of the cycle. I would glance at my clock and, if it was less than an hour before my required wake up time, I got up.

Getting up was an equally easy fix. There is no requirement that you "jump out of bed". Just sit up, swing your legs over the side of the bed and let your body/brain take whatever time it needs to finish waking up completely.

OP states they have trouble sleeping, I have no cure for that. But for typical people, the other hack is that beds are for sleeping and sex. Not TV. Not games. Get in bed at the appropriate time to get the number of hours of sleep you need and then sleep.

Cities can do things also. e.g. NYC banning STRs

It's an A380

Nothing like a zoom lens to exaggerate the danger. :-)

“Thanks for letting me know you intend to leave early. Since you’ve already paid for the whole time, I’m just going to leave your existing reservation as it is in case you plans change again”

I've hosted a bunch of hosts also. All were great guests. I've had a handful of non-hosts that turned out to be pains. So...

I messed up my own beard that way once. Switched the guard from the length for my hair to the length for my beard, except I got interrupted and never actually put the beard guard on. I guess it was validating to learn after 15 years of having a beard that it's still the right choice for me. 😂

Plot twist: She was a dom and forcing him to do those things was how she humiliated him. They mellowed as they aged and now are happily in a condo in Tampa living typical lives.

How about it. (september 1990)

"Planes are flying buses

Cars are not the same as buses. They only stop at very select locations and you need a driver."

I mean, mine only has four seats... And I've never once hired someone to drive it...

Thanks for responding! I looked at those and a few other sections and I think the language that gets you is when they say things like "the registration" must be applied to the vehicle. I was hoping that somewhere it might be a little more vague, but there doesn't appear to be any such wiggle room. Bummer.

Too hot for me. Even in the shade you won't want to do anything. In the sun it's legit dangerous.

I love that pool story!

For spotting my farm while flying in, our neighbor has a tree farm that provides an awesome landmark.

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Chuck it. Not getting sick is a good excuse to buy a new tent. ⛺️ 🤣

Yep, you get it. People with that kind experience know that it has almost no relationship to the fancy people and their private jets. :-)

Tip #1: Shoot it from about a thousand feet. Everything looks better. 😂

Tip #2: Set realistic expectations that you are willing to actually meet. For me, that means that I'm not going to have a weed free, pest free lawn (though the dogs have reduced the vole population nicely. Thanks guys!). This applies to both budget, obviously, and TIME. I'm not willing to spend tons of time recreating a golf course. So I look for ways that give most bang for buck and then don't sweat the details.

Tip #3: Find ways to buy chemicals/fertilizers in bulk. I go to the ag supply store down the road and save tons compared to retail prices.

Tip #4: It's just a bigger lawn. All the same advice applies, just that the machines might get bigger.

There are only two responses here on reddit to that information, upvotes or people who get salty about little airplanes. 😂

Thanks for the upvote. I do love being able to fly out of my farm. I never get tired of the mornings where I get up, walk out to my plane, fly to a nearby airport with a restaurant for breakfast, fly back and get started on my day.

Airplane, but yeah. My landing strip is to the left of this photo in the field that isn't striped.

If I'm sitting around the tent cooking or reading or whatever, adding fuel every hour or two isn't a problem.

If I'm sleeping, I'm using a sleep system that keeps me warm without the stove both for convenience (not having to get up every few hours) and safety (I don't want to die of hypothermia if I can't keep a fire going due to lack of fuel, broken stove, wet conditions, injury or whatever else).