Hair and dirt on the bathroom floor.-always. Dirt and dog paw prints on the kitchen floor-always. Jennifer also never ever cleaned the kitchen counters after she used them and she also always left dishes, cutlery on the counter and in the kitchen sink. Sometimes her dog would manage to get in the kitchen, and bring food, paper or bags and to the living room, resulting in food bits, paper and plastic bags strewn on the floor and couch. Finally I had to ask Jennifer to keep her whole apartment clean. If I hadn't made this request to her, her pattern was to live like this and wait for the cleaning person to clean her apartment.
Jennifer has a cleaning person 3 x's/week. These 3 days were the ONLY days that the apartment was clean. As you can see from above, Jennifer never lifted a finger in between those 3 days. I am NOT exaggerating. One weekend happened to have been a long weekend in Mexico City so the cleaning person did not come in for 4 days. The apartment was disgustingly filthy by the time the cleaning woman returned. Because I rarely saw Jennifer, I had at times, sent pictures to her, asking her to clean up whenever the dog made a mess, and to keep the kitchen and bathroom clean. She inevitably replied with excuses but said she would , but she never did. Ultimately I had no choice but to leave her place. I called and complained to airbnb and sent them many pictures of the filth.
On 2 occasions, I had to remind Jennifer that we needed more water. The first time she even suggested that I bring down the empty water container to the security guard and tell him that we needed more water. She told me to pay him and that she would pay me back. I did this as I was desperate for water but at the same time, I did not feel this was my responsibility. On the second occasion, I texted her saying we were out of water and expressed anger and frustration to her saying that it was her responsibility to ensure we had water, not mine.
Also one night I was awakened at about 11:30 because her dog was howling. Jennifer was not home. I listened to the dog howling for about 3/4 hour, hoping that her dog would stop but he did not. I waited that long as I did not want to bother Jennifer but ultimately I could no longer stand it and texted her about the dog and asked when she would be getting home. She replied that she'd be home in a few minutes (and, by the way, never apologized for the dog's behaviour). Jennifer did not come home for a good hour despite my having re-texted her to ask her when she wold get home. Jennifer never replied to that last text.
Please note that her bed and pillows are ROCK hard.
Finally, there is a dog in the neighourhood that will wake you up because of his incessant barking. Sometimes the barking goes on literally for hours into the wee hours of the night-no exaggeration. (On a more compassionate note, I felt so sorry for that poor dog who was being so neglected by his owner).
In summary, Jennifer is not a super host, rather she is a super bad host...