Unfortunately, we couldn't give Kelly a 5 star review, there were great things about her place but there were a few things that made our stay uncomfortable.
*Here's the good:
Amazing location, I grew up in East Van, very close to Kelly's house, I know the neighbourhood inside out so it was great to be located there.
If you're not familiar with the city, it's very close to Main st where you can find many shops and restaurant's, easy to walk.
The home itself was very cute, we really liked the space, the kitchen is fully equipped, we did a lot of cooking, this home has the space and the equipment you need to have meals at home.
There's lots of additional towels and I think bedding if needed.
We really enjoyed pulling out the sofa and watching Netflix at night, it was relaxing.
The place was fairly clean, except for a few things; bedding was not properly washed and bathroom had an awful (pee like) odour.
*The bad:
Let me just mention that Kelly lives right behind the house, as soon as you open the back door you're literally are in her patio.
We were OK with this, although I don't think this is mentioned on her listing and I think it's important to mention this.
The issue started when one day Kelly looked through her garbage bin and started criticizing us for not separating the garbage. We were watching the whole thing as she was talking very angry about us. Shortly after she send us a few messages about the garbage.
Kelly is super particular about her garbage (if not obsessed) and no people in Vancouver are not like that...
We travelled about 8 hours to Vancouver so we had garbage with us, this was way before we read in her manual that you have to separate every bit of your garbage. We weren't going to separate old stinky and nasty old garbage so we followed what she requested in the manual on day #2.
Kelly went on and on about this and sent me a link to learn more about the garbage, I thought it was funny and excessive that she couldn't let go a bag of garbage in the garbage bin.
The other issue was that when we hung out some of our clean laundry in our tiny patio (Kelly does it, as well as the neighbours)
We had another message from her asking us to remove the dry clothes because apparently "it doesn't look good for the neighbours "
Our laundry would take days to dry because that patio gets almost no sun.
In another occasion we watched Kelly angry when she found out that we put out the patio door the shower mat and toilet brush. We did this because as mentioned above there was a very unpleasant smell in the bathroom, the smell got better once we removed these items.
Kelly lives in such a close proximity of the rental property that we felt the rest of trip that she was after us and that made me uncomfortable.
We are very clean people, we take pride in how we maintain good cleaning and good care of the Airbnb's we stay at.
We understand Kelly too but I think she could've handle this situations a lot different.
Due to her attitude we wouldn't recommend this place nor stay again. Pity because it's a great property.