Gary's was truly a nightmare and I am still getting charges from him trying to scam me out of more money.
I am a 25 year old female that was staying for a month that does not need an old man creepy babysitter knocking on my door to check in / accusing me of things.
If he knocked and I was home alone I would try to talk through the door for safety reasons -- he persisted until I opened the door.
The apartment itself was very old and outdated and a lot was falling apart-- the sink in the bathroom squeaked SO loud every time you turned it on, the toilet took 5 times MINIMUM to flush every single time. There was a weird smell in the apartment and rust and in his photos and tours he made a big show of having only the "best of the best" of everything in the apartment… but what was in there was cheap furniture (lots from ikea) including dining room chairs that the seats fell off of and a bed that was held up with newspaper on the ground to make it less crooked. The cupboards he even warned us when we got there were about to come off the hinges. The carpet is gross and comes up in a bunch of places where it doesn’t lay right. The laundry is $8 a load to wash and dry and the light doesn’t work without you holding it down at the same time-- so only in daylight can you use it. The "gym" is a basically a moldy closet with 1 old treadmill and 1 "other" old workout machine in it. The lights in general in the apartment are so so dark. Ended up using my flashlight on my phone to try to put on makeup (Guys won't have this issue haha).
The apartment door leads to outside… its not an apartment building but an old motel style building which means very grimey and the neighbors were a nightmare -- constant screaming and fighting couple that kept us up about a dozen different nights with their loud fights.
There were okay things (the neighborhood is nice -- but the place is far from public transport) but the bad outweighed the good BY FAR when it came to the host being creepy and trying to scam me out of money. Trying to charge $500 for a set of keys and a blanket that he claims I stained (I didn’t). So now Air Bnb has charged me for ridiculous damages and I'm having to call them every day to dispute it. NIGHTMARE.