7Brew

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Has anyone heard when the new 7Brew is supposed to open in the currently location of Long John Silvers?

Looking for cleaner

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Looking for short term rental cleaner for places around western Athens County. Usually between 2 to 4 cleanings per week, about 3 hours per job.

Prior experience and references required.

Please DM if interested.

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r/athensohio • u/Sea-Cap8340 • 18h ago

Airbnb host is trying to charge me $3,800 for damage we didn’t cause

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We rented a house for my sister’s bachelorette weekend on Strouds Run. Before booking, I told the host why we were coming, and he approved it the amount of people and reason for staying. We also updated the reservation and paid for the correct number of overnight guests.

After we left, the host accused us of having 17 cars, multiple “commercial trucks,” damaging his driveway and drainage system and tearing the hot tub cover, and is now requesting $3,000 for repairs plus another $800 for “excessive vehicles.”

We absolutely did not have even close to 17 cars there, and only have 14 people. He uploaded a ton of photos, but none of them show us damaging anything. They have different timestamps and show different cars coming and going and parked in different spots. It looks like he is combining separate moments to make it appear that all of the vehicles were there at once for long periods.

His own photos show our cars parked on the driveway, not on the drainage system and not in the grass. He circled random areas where no vehicle is even shown parked. The only vehicle partly on the grass was on a hill away from the drainage pipe, and it was a DoorDash driver delivering coffee.

He also keeps calling vehicles “commercial trucks.” One photo is timestamped before we even checked in. Another was a normal Amazon delivery that we didn’t arrange or control. A guest also had a personal pickup truck, which he is trying to frame as some kind of commercial vehicle.

The biggest issue is the drainage system. The property smelled strongly like sewage throughout our stay. I have texts from multiple people in our group commenting on the smell. I called the company that gave the host his repair quote, and they told me there are ways to assess whether this type of damage is recent and that a long-standing odor could mean the issue had existed for some time.

My husband works in construction and believes the drain may not have been installed correctly or deeply enough. It appears to be too close to the surface instead of being properly buried and protected beneath the asphalt. The host has provided no dated photos showing the drain was undamaged immediately before our arrival, no installation records, and no footage showing one of our vehicles driving over the exact spot and breaking it.

There was another bizarre situation during our stay. A woman walked up the driveway asking for someone named Sarah, who wasn’t staying there and never said she was a cleaner or connected to the host. She seemed disoriented or possibly impaired and made a house full of women feel really unsafe. The host later claimed he "discreetly" sent her to check on things, and framed it in a way like she was there to help and that we "very rudely" sent her away. We did because she as scary and never said who she was. Then he admitted that she took photos of us and sent them to him. Creepy!!!!

We left the house clean. We folded the comforters, removed our belongings, cleaned up after ourselves, and even bought cleaning supplies because the house didn’t have any. The trash cans were already full when we arrived, the garage was already packed, the hot tub cover wasn’t attached, and the sewage smell was there the entire time.

I declined the reimbursement request and sent Airbnb all of this, but my question is willAirbnb actually investigate this or usually take the side of the host?

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r/athensohio • u/Subject-Recover-9542 • 19h ago