Mostafa is a great person but his place was not ready to be rented.
Hopefully, by the time someone else reads this, the following issues will be resolved and Mostafa's beautiful home will be ready for them.
When I booked the price looked great, especially as we wouldn't be stuck in the basement, again. However, shortly after, Mostafa reached out and indicated that 2 discounts were applied but only one should have been. After a few messages back and forth, the next day Mostafa agreed to us paying what we had.
That's a good thing because there is no way it would have been worth the extra $400.00 he wanted us to make up. Keep in mind that $400 was only one discount. So the regular price would have been about $800.00 more than what we paid plus taxes.
The noise level is not acceptable. In the living area, you are able to hear the conversations from the main unit pretty clearly, especially if voices are raised. In the bedroom, you can hear everything!! The voices do not need to be raised at all. Without earplugs, there is no way I would have been able to sleep. This is all night long. Usually from late evening until morning. Then they sleep. Then they go out late afternoon and when they return at night it starts all over again.
More details:
There was no curtain on the patio door. We bought a shower curtain and some removable sticky hooks to hold it up.
There is one closet for the entire place and that is in the bedroom and it's small. We had to buy clothes hangers.
There was no microwave.
The appliances were all new. We had to remove the manufacturer's tape and seals.
The dishwasher ran through the cycles but with no water. We had a dishwasher of dirty dishes when we arrived that we had to clean by hand. There was no drain tray so we used the dishwasher to put the dishes in to dry. Mostafa bought a dish rack, but no drip tray, 3 weeks into our stay.
We bought a couple of foil cookie sheets to use in the oven as there were no trays or pans to use inside the oven.
There were no eating utensils. Mostafa purchase some for us the next day. Until then he gave us plastic to use.
There was no broom or mop so when we left, a week early by the way, I used the old stick mop in the hallway to try and put any dirt into a pile. I couldn't pick it up as there was no dustpan.
There is no dresser or shelves to put clothes in. We bought a small 3 drawer, collapsable storage bin so that we didn't have to live a month out of our suitcases.
There are no oven mitts. The kitchen is missing the basics like a strainer, ovenware, etc.
The bathroom is very small and if you're a larger person, you will most likely need to perch sideways on the toilet as there is no leg room in front of it.
The path along the side of the garage was strewn with garbage that the animals had gotten into. It was like that the entire stay.
I did take photos but there was no place to save them here.