where do I start with this property.
Loved Berlin but this apoartment reallyput a damper on the trip.
We avoided spending a great deal of time in the place. And used solely to sleep
it really was not as we expected.
it was dirty old and lots of damaged property.
old equipment left in place unusable such as old washing machine.
Everything running off extension leads with trailing wires
sleeps 8 but other than dining chairs nowhere to sit.
shower held up with a screw and that’s if it wanted to stay in place. Shower rail held in place by a bit of wire.
Broken blinds
mirrors broken on wardrobe
notes from neighbours left on view to previous visitors complaining of blood smears on the front door and smoking in the property.
double bed = single quilt and one pillow for 2 people.
chipped mugs. uncleaned greasy oven. Other people out of date food items
more like student digs than a home. long coridoor with rooms off.

travelling with children we were concerned by the fetish bar around the corner from the apartment.
below is the response from the owner when I complained.
make what you want of this and stay at own risk.
I really don’t think his excuses are good enough and especially knowing what he did reference the property to continue to let out until resolved or defiantly not change the full amount.......
I beg your pardon for the inconveniences. It’s not my aim to correct your impressions but I want to share some information. You’re right the flat needs a renovation, and it will get it in January. We blocked a week in January 2019 for the renovation - the last renovation was just 2½ years ago.
As Airbnb host we get the last 15 month into some unexpected problems. The Berlin government gave last year only 2000 special permissions for Airbnb flats which are allowed to rent for short term. For the reason that we had cheep prices we were booked out immediately. There are just a few Airbnb flats in Berlin central located with 3 rooms. So we started to trust in the higher prices Airbnb recommended us to avoid too many bookings, so called “intelligent price system”. But the recommended prices of Airbnb are through these circumstances now nearly double high since they were 2 years ago. And people book still month in advance.
We had last year also a smaller fee for our fix costs per booking.
But on one hand it’s not correct, because for every booking we have to the same work/cost for correspondence, bed linen, towels, check-in and final cleaning. So when you count the costs for this work and the extra cost for taxes and Germans high social contributions, extra payments for work at weekend or/and at night for those who do the work you’ll will find out that this fix fee is totally correct for an 80m² flat. Unfortunately Airbnb name these fix costs just cleaning fee, this is economically not correct and not our fault.
On the other hand, just in case, if we make an artificial low fee for our fix costs per booking, we will get more bookings just for one or two nights. And this are not the normal families we want, this are the mostly the crazy party people which are coming just for a cheep short trip and they causes us a lot of trouble and problems.
So you may understand that a higher fix cost fee will bring us bookings which are not just for one or two nights, because as more days you book the fix cost fee becomes per day pro rata cheaper. So we try to get more normal guests on this way. At least what’s important is the total rate people have to pay.
But anyway, sometimes we have still very strange guests. You found on the note with complaints of my neighbors of such customers. It just happened 2 weeks ago. Three young man lost their keys in a discotheque, disturbed all neighbors by ringing at 4 o’clock at night to let them in into the house. Totally drunken did they crash the windows to get in into the flat and at least they destroyed also the mirror in the corridor. The police arrived with 8 officers and called me 4 o’clock in the morning to come around to make sure that these 3 guys are not housebreaker. Through this action one of the young guys got cuts at his hand and some blood were left at the door. This is not caused through our location, this are just Airbnb guests you sometimes get! 400 € damage within 5 minutes! Airbnb guests are a black box. You’ll never know how they will behave and what can happen and still many Airbnb users treat our flat not very well.
The way people book an Airbnb flat is comparing the price in total to the offer of rooms, equipments, beds, locations and reviews. They don’t compare the cleaning fees. I’m sure that’s exactly what you did before booking. And for the reasons that you decided to book our flat, it was the probably the best solution between all the Airbnb offers. Of course you can pay more and book more highly recommended flats, but you didn’t. We have 159 recommendations to our flat, so you had some orientation written by customers and as it looks like that not all of our guests shares your opinion that the price performance ratio is that bad as you mentioned.
Of course I can make lower prices than the normal market prices, but I just will be booked in the next days for the whole 2019 and believe me, you ever have complains whatever the price is.
Best regards
Bernd