By Nina
The apartment is not well furnished or maintained. The floor boards slide around as you walk on them – this is extremely frustrating, especially if someone needs to get up in the middle of the night. The shower in the pink bathroom has a layer of soap scum on the back wall, the shower head is damaged and sprays water in multiple directions, and the ceiling paint is flaking off. The sink faucet handle is also deteriorating. The other shower has a curtain that is too long and is in the bottom of the tub as you shower. It doesn’t look clean and the tub is so small that it’s hard not to have this shower curtain touch you. Both shower floors are extremely slippery. The bathroom with the tub is not as pictured – you have to step up about ten inches to get to the toilet/tub and it is unsafe for kids or anyone with the slightest mobility issue. There’s also no hot water in this sink. The wifi is terrible – if you needed to do any work from here, it’d be dicey. Some lamps are broken and others have blown light bulbs. When I reported that the washing machine was just full of water (so that you couldn’t open it without water pouring out onto the floor), the person who responded (one of 3 or 4 people using that Airbnb account) said they’d report it and try to find a solution. A solution was not found in the remaining days of my stay. One of us fell through the bed because the slats weren’t attached to the bed frame and slid out from under the mattress, so we had to put the (very uncomfortable) bed back together to go to sleep.
The listing itself suggests a condescending and controlling style by the host, but once the apartment was booked, I received a list of what seemed like countless extra rules that had to be followed and penalties if they weren’t. I was also issued an additional bill for city taxes, which I’d assume should have been included in the cost of the rental. This made me nervous about staying there lest I inadvertently break a rule or incur some fee.
The apartment seems to have been outsourced to a bad management company. Even if all the repairs were made to the above complaints, there’s not one comfortable place to sit and the whole place needs a new paint job. It just seems run down and totally out of the norm for this price range.
The apartment has great potential and is in a fantastic location, but it would really be better served with a little more care and attention.