I own a few airbnb's that I rent out and one is a large house that can sleep a good amount of people. One of my best friends' fiancé reached out to me and asked if we could have a big party weekend up there for his 30th birthday and I said of course no problem and also that I wouldn't charge her for the night only the cleaning and garbage pickup which ended up being about $280. So I blocked the days that we wanted to go up last year (she asked april 2024, the trip was planned for april 2025). Now a weekend normally costs over $3000 if it were to be booked through the website and I probably ate about $1800-2000 blocking it off that far in advance, but I had no problem doing that since he's one of my best friends.

So I was coordinating everything with her up until the actual stay, after the stay my friend was the one reaching out to me about the trash cost and after I told him what it was he told me she was going to send me $120 (so 280 - 160 for the food/drinks for me and my GF $80 each). The way he texted it to me I didn't understand at first and honestly I was a little surprised so I texted him back asking to clarify what he was saying but I could tell he was trying to get me to pay and I also asked my girlfriend and some other people if I was wrong for assuming that my other costs would be covered since I provided by far the biggest contribution to the weekend. We didn't discuss any of that at all prior to the stay so maybe I was being naive assuming that mine and my girlfriends' costs would be covered or split amongst the other people there. (which they all agreed with me that that should have been my contribution). I ended up getting a text saying she venmoed me the $120 before I even responded to my friend and that kind of pissed me off a little bit to be honest because my venmo was compromised and locked about 2 years ago and haven't had access to it since so I primarily use Zelle for everything and they didn't even get a response back from me at that point. So I waited a few hours to respond and I sent a nice text back just saying I didn't think I was going to be in on that stuff since I provided the house and now it's been two days and haven't heard anything back from either of them despite them being very responsive beforehand like they are mad at me. He's my best friend and at the end of the day I'm not letting $160 ruin it but I'm surprised and kind of disappointed that they wouldn't have just charged everyone and extra $10-15 each to cover mine and my gf's portion since I saved everyone at least $150-200 each.

I also just want to point out a few other potentially important details, She dropped off a lot of the supplies and decorations to me the week before and I went up a day early to drop everything off and decorate which took us a few hours blowing up balloons and decorating the whole house. I also was not planning on bringing my girlfriend up originally because I didn't know who was going to be up there like if it was going to be a guys weekend and just his fiance was going to be up there and my friend was the one that reached out to me and asked me to bring her up there (I'm assuming so his fiance had someone to hang out with/talk to). And third me and my girlfriend bought all of our own drinks and our own cooler so we wouldn't be to much of a burden on the drink cost but everyone ended up going in our cooler and drinking most of our drinks anyway which honestly I don't really care about but if I would have known I was going to be in on the other costs I wouldn't have bought anything. So basically in the end it cost me more time and money for a weekend at my own house than everyone else that came. I really don't think it's wrong of me to assume my expenses were covered but I just want other opinions