While Paige and Grant were very friendly, the trouble with the Airbnb was the location. I never truly felt comfortable. It could be that the building beside was half burnt down with boarded up windows and that the air bnb is in the basement with a short walk down an alley. My first night there was quite the shouting match outside in the alley way. After that I felt I needed to Uber back because the area was being consumed with the vulnerable population. I was never scared, but it was a hard dose of reality that weighed heavy on me (which was not the reminder I needed while travelling).
You are much better off paying slightly more and getting a little further from east Hastings if you aren’t comfortable with this.