I didn't want to write a review and wanted just to forget this nightmare, but in the end it seems that I have to.
There was a lot of unpredictable situations I had to face after the arrival. We got in close contact with Alessandra long before my arrival and even have some plans of entering into a long term rental contract but those plans were not supposed to come true due to overall conditions.
For the reader to understand: I am a full time student who spends about about 12 hours a day in an academy plus I have part-time job. The only thing I needed is a safe quiet space to recharge myself after long working days.
At the time of my check-in and during two weeks except the lat day I spent in this apartment Alessandra was in India.
The rules and conditions which were not included in the description:
1)You can use home kitchen only on strict timing, at 12.30pm for lunch and 7pm for dinner. Any other time you need to use small outdoor kitchen. You will receive time schedule of nonna(grandmother) Lisa life, what she is allowed to do and what is not, as well as what she eats. Helping with her cellphone, opening doors for her friends etc.
2) Outdoor kitchen is always fool of spiders and other insects. And it is also cold since it outdoor.
3) You will be asked to do the laundry (using washing machine) once a week with clothes of other people.
4) You might be (as me) accused on stealing/taking host's food without any evidences. After this situation I developed a fear that if I will stay longer I will be accused of something else as well.
5) Unknown people will be constantly walking into your room in your absence without prior notification. And you may (like me) once kiss the locked door of your room. Yes, nonna Lisa took the key, locked the door and hide the key. In my absence. I’m not accusing nonna since she’s a very old woman but still such situations constantly cutting the ground from under your feet. Another strange situation. I was leaving the bathroom and standing naked just in a bath towel and nonna was just waiting for me under the door. She asked if she can take something from my room and well… I was standing naked in the bath towel the room waiting while she looking for something in the closet.
6) Toilet is for disabled people. So if you are not used for such type of toilets it might be a surprise. Bathroom is full of different stuff and claustrophobic people like me might fill themselves extremely uncomfortable developing panic attacks.
7) Room itself is extremely cold and dark. Literally no sunshine getting in.
8) Alessandra can be quite pushy and demanding on quick responses to her messages not taking in consideration that people can be busy or just out of any strength to respond to any messages.
9) My last few days in apartment I started to record everything in case there will be needed evidence for airbnb. And I was afraid, okay?
10) The last unpleasant situation happened on my last day staying in this apartment. Alessandra wrote me a message upon her arrival wishing to have a little chat and I declined her offer telling her that I am extremely tired to do any chats. In the morning (she arrived at night) when I was leaving an apartment and heading for school she started to insisting to talk to her right here and right now even though I told her twice that I need to go to school and I don’t have time for chat. I walked away and she started to scream at my back phrases like: “What is wrong with you?! Who is leaving the family like that?!”. I was puzzled a lot with this… She is not my family or anything, I just paying the rent and I really don’t want to be involved in all of this. And yes, I recorded that as well.
In a conclusion. Nonna Lisa is a very nice and sweet old lady who requires a lot of attention and time. She was basically left alone for the most part of the day and for me it was tiresome to spend my strength on her. I don’t know how to deal with elders and I was not ready for this at all. Maybe it’s okay when you are on vocation and have all time you want, but when you are a working student… I’m sorry, but huge no. Alessandra's behaviour is quite strange too. Everything started well but it fall apart pretty quickly.
Good part: Since I left this apartment two weeks earlier I get my refund for two weeks without any additional troubles.