🤢😷 MOFO PRETO / BLACK MOLD / MOISSISURE NOIR
This apartment currently has a black mold infestation.
Sure, the photos look good but it's pretty much downhill from there.
I spent 1 night here and woke up with a killer headache (I rarely get headaches)
While making breakfast I noticed a musty smell.
And then saw it.
Black mold coming through the walls.
I stayed for 1 night only.
Unwilling to compromise my health in the middle of a pandemic. I packed up my stuff and informed the host shortly after leaving.
Prior to leaving, I used a small piece of paper towel, wiped some of the black mold off the wall, and took a picture, and sent it to the host via AirBnb showing the problem.
She replied by saying "I called a technician that fixed that in 1h."
Sorry, but wiping black mold off the wall and painting over it doesn't make the apartment SAFE. If you know about black mold you know the spores float everywhere and you breathe them into your lungs.
I had booked 4 nights. I stayed for 1 night. She didn't give me any instructions to take any further steps. I asked for what I felt was a fair refund of two nights.
Then it all started.
- She said I didn't cancel (even though I messaged her on AirBnb an hour after leaving)
- She took offense to me suggesting that the apartment has a black mold problem
- She filed a damage claim on AirBnb showing the photo I sent (the photo where I am holding a small piece of paper napkin with black mold on it) claiming "in fact, you took pieces of the wall, so I’ll also ask you for the cost of repairing it"
It's not a piece of wall Maria, it's a piece of paper napkin.
- She submitted a receipt to AirBnb for paint and cleaning supplies and I don't know what else, claiming that I should pay $100 to remedy the mold problem on her walls.
So yeah.
This place is cheap.
For a reason.
It's a tired old apartment that looks good in pictures but in reality, needs a refresh.
Cigarette burns on the couch, worn out laminate flooring (so you're walking on and breathing in epoxy resin dust), window blinds so old they are practically unusable and to top it all off, the black mold infestation.
Stay here if you want to risk your health and your wallet.
10 years on AirBnb, never had an experience with a host like this.
I'm sure her review of me will be less than flattering.
Maria, you're nice lady but you made some strange choices on how to handle this. Not only that you falsely accused me of damaging your apartment (when I clearly didn't) but then pressed AirBnb to get money from me to fix your moldy old wall.
Desperate times I guess.
Good luck out there.