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I've stayed as a homestay guest in various places around the world, including London, California, Vancouver, and Toronto. Having visited many homes, I am well aware of the manners and rules to live in homestays. However, this house has an excessive number of rules. The host incessantly nags and imposes rules on almost every action I take. Dealing with her at home is stressful, and adapting alone without friends or family in a foreign country is challenging enough, but she makes it impossible for me to relax even at home.

Here are some unusual rules that differ from regular homestays. If you can endure these, stay here, it's probably impossible tho.

1. Although there is a trash bin on the first floor in the kitchen, I cannot use it. She demands that I put my trash in a separate personal bag and throw it outside every time I want to dump something. Also a trash bin in the bathroom, it's purely decorative, and we cannot throw anything in it.
2. She opens our room doors and gets in when we're not in our rooms, she said it's her house, so she can open it whenever she wants. No privacy at all.
3. While we pay money, she refuses to provide anything, not even tissues. It's worse than a guesthouse.
4. Laundry can only be done once a week during the weekend. Even if you slept at a friend's house over the weekend, you cannot do laundry on weekdays.
5. Laundry and dryer settings can only be set to "normal." If you choose any other setting, she either turns it off without notice or yells at you.
6. There’s CCTV in the living room where you can see the kitchen.
8. She criticized me for turning on the bedroom lights and bedside lamp at night, claiming it results in high electricity bills. Let me use my room as I want. I paid.
9. Even though I use the bathroom alone when there was no other guests, she demanded that I close the bathroom blinds. Even if I mentioned that I’m enjoying the outside view, she said she said I don’t need to see it. Small things with rules make life unbearable.

In addition to countless other things she has said to me, writing them all is exhausting due to their sheer number. In conclusion, she will nag about EVERY SINGLE THING you do.

If she doesn't like something, I get scolded, and new rules are imposed on me. Even though I paid my money, I always felt like I was living under her watch like Cinderella. Honestly, I don't know where the positive reviews are coming from.

The main reason I left is..
I informed her in advance about my overseas trip lasting about three weeks and my return date to this house. However, three days before my flight back to Toronto, she notified me that I couldn't use my room because she needed to invite her family for her birthday party. If she had informed me earlier that day is not available when I mentioned my return schedule, I could have adjusted my flight date or informed my company. However, because of her, I ended up being stranded for over a week without being able to go to work or find a place to stay urgently in Toronto.

I don't know where to start!! This was my worst stay ever! Unfortunately I was deceived by positive comments, but the truth is something DIFFERENT !! My stay was full of Anxiety and frustration. She kept repeating to me that this is my house and not a hotel!!! hundreds of times!!! She was entering my room without inform me!!!!!, and when I prevented her from that and asked her to respect my privacy, but she refused and said, “This is my house I can do what I want !! ” She knock my door forcefully and ask me to go out to talk as if I were her child, shouted at me in a rude manner. She send me hundreds of messages while I was outside the house with my friends, ruins my mood and calling Hundreds of times about the dishes to put it in the shelf !!!! , it was very annoying and uncomfortable. My room was very hot. I asked her very kindly to turn on the air conditioning, but she refused. then she gave me a fan and when I used it one time she asked me to turn it off!! and said its cold outside!!! But I feel HOT in the room !!! she asked me to turn my room light off when I was inside the room !!!!!! every day she looks for something to bother me with !!!

To Whom it may concern:
I want first start out by saying I wouldn’t even give this place a fourth of a star, when I got on this site I was in need for housing bad till my apartment was available. When I came upon this person from the air B & B I was very great full to her. But the old saying you get what you pay for is an understatement. This was a one room she rented out which was fine cause was it was temporary, but I think she was confused and thought I was her child. She didn’t list any rules of what she expecting then after paying she threw all these rules at me. I moved in and she told me that I couldn’t leave after 10pm or come and or she would lock me out. Then she would constantly yell and me for every thing. Then after getting settled in I notice she had the temperature set at 90 degrees which was insane. So I said ok went into my room and was going open my window and she had removed the turn knob so no one could open it up. That’s against fire code, I asked for it and refused. Then once I was in there she told I could only use kitchen once a day, excuse me three meals a day is normal. She wouldn’t allow me to use cups or anything. I have rented before they always let you use stuff as long as you clean and put it back. Then she told I can only do wash once a week. Then come to find out after she would leave the house and text me and demand me to do things and told me she had camera on me watching my every move, this isn’t what I signed up for. Then she went out of town she wanted me to babysit other tenants and texted me over 50 texts in one day. I was stuck and she knew I couldn’t leave and she would constantly be tell me her house her rules don’t like it I can leave. Like I said I have rented before and this isn’t right and something should be done. She doesn’t need be a renter if that’s how she’s going treat all of her guests, which is was like living in jail. Living at her place for the short time caused me so much anxiety and stress I was sick!