Hi
I honestly don’t know which topic to put this under as this doesn’t seem to fit under anything on list.
Context … DD is 19 yo and is currently on a 1 month fieldwork placement from university with 2 other female students. They are all friends on the course. They’ve had to find their own accommodation and for the 3 of them they’ve rented a 1 bed Air BNB cottage in tourist countryside from the 51yo landlord. Not overly touristy, village based countryside, small population under 100.
They are 2 weeks in. Within 2 days the landlord contacted them took them out for welcome drinks, got one of the students very drunk and had sex with her on the sofa in their AirBNB cottage. The student was so drunk my DD says she had forgotten they’d had sex, but was desperate to have sex with him again and despite DD and student 2’s attempts to talk to her, student 1 insisted she wanted to have sex with landlord, and left the property with him.
My DD and student 2 tried to talk to student 1 when she came back the following day as they were really concerned about her. Student 1 continued to meet up with the landlord and so it continued. However student 1 has been talking to DD and student 2 about what is going on between herself and the landlord as she is troubled in some way by it. DD has been listening to and supporting student 1 whilst also voicing her concern about how they got together. The landlord told the students that after giving student 1 a big discount he planned to get her drunk and have sex with her. This is my DD’s concern but student 1 is apparently not bothered by this.
Cut to 1 week in, landlord has got wind that the students have been talking about him, and invited them all round to his for drinks and a meal. My DD said she was trying v hard to avoid him and any contact with him. At the weekend he came over to his AirBNB and cooked the students a meal. My DD says he had a hissy fit after her and student 2 went into the kitchen “for too long” to talk and said they were ungrateful.
This seemed to turn him. He had now progressed to sending DD texts about the state of the property and threatening to fine her if she doesn’t clean the house up.
I’ve told her to take photos etc so she has times / dates evidence of the state of the property. We’ve stayed at plenty of AirBNBs as a family and she knows that the landlord is barely ever present apart from maybe on the last day to check all is well with the clear up.
Latest is that student 1 is now siding with landlord and she and DD have not spoken for 2 days. DD says she’s told student 1 what she thinks cos student 1 has asked her opinion and now student 1 wants DD to make friends with landlord. DD is staying away.
AIBU …
YES the landlords behaviour is ok and DD should keep her neb out.
NO he should be reported to AirBNB for predatory and / or harassing behaviour.