BEWARE! The apartment that I was given was absolutely, provably not the apartment in the pictures (I provided photos and videos showing a comparison of the pictures in the listing vs the actual apartment in real life and AirBnb agreed that, beyond any doubt, this was obviously not the same apartment.).
This was not a small difference, the pictured apartment is nicely finished, chic, clean and uncluttered. The actual apartment is old, unfinished, cluttered, dirty and lived in (there was no accommodation or indication made that the host had prepared for an upcoming Airbnb month guest. The small refrigerator was full of half eaten and moldy and rotting food (I have photos and proof of all of my assertions) and crumbs all over (the fridge hadn't been cleaned, maybe ever) the counters, etc.
As bad as it was to be the victim of this bait and switch fraud, the host was even worse. In the face of undeniable evidence that he was lying and had intentionally misrepresented the apartment and despite Air Bnb (and everyone else who looked at the videos and photos for 30 seconds) agreeing that the apartment was obviously not the one pictured in the listing, Jackson continued to insist that it was not only the same apartment...but that he actually had work done recently to make it better than the pictures and that accounted for the differences everyone saw (despite structural and geometric differences that made it obvious the apartments were not the same, not to re-mention the notes from above about clutter, cleanliness, etc that made the real apartment obviously worse than the the pictured apartment). The host is a brazen liar and actively committed fraud (at least with respect to me) with this listing.
I acknowledge that there are good reviews for this place and I booked the apartment based on those. I can't tell you the circumstances on those reviews...perhaps Jackson actually does own the apartment displayed in the listing pictures and he was trying to double dip and stuck me in his personal residence? I have no idea, that's pure speculation to try to make sense of the positive reviews, because the place Jackson provided to me was absolutely not the place pictured in the listing you are looking at.
No doubt, Jackson will respond to this and give excuses as to why I'm lying and he's not. Consider incentives, though...I have no skin in the game. I have no financial or other incentive to convince you not to stay at this apartment. Jackson clearly has every incentive to maintain his credibility and the illusion that he did not scam me with this listing. I'm just trying to help others so they don't have the same awful air bnb experience that I just had with this bait and switch at Jackson's place.
If you choose to believe Jackson and the positive reviews and book his place, that's great, have at it. I sincerely hope you get the apartment that is in the pictures. I did not. You've been warned.