I was deeply attracted by all the superior comments about this listing and was extremely excited to meet May, the host, that I even brought her See’s candies. However, our 30-days stay turned disastrous and it was a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. Besides other insects, cockroaches were found daily provided that we had no unsealed food laying around and zero cooking. No wonder the host provided cockroach traps. We conclude that the pest problems are results of it being an old building. The building looks like 50 plus years old due to all the wall cracks and terrible insulation between floors. Noises from the unit right above goes from 10pm-3am, then 7am-8am. The insulation is so poor that we could clearly hear noises such as: chair pulling, people sneezing, child crying, heavy footsteps, objects dropping on the floor, water running down pipeline, etc. Two times, I woke up around 2-3am by the object dropping noises above my head. My nightmares did not end here. We had water stoppage two days in a row. When the water finally came back, we experienced very low water pressure and slow water flow. The plumber found all the faucets were fully plugged with dirt. They said the dirt was from the building’s water tank cleaning from two weeks ago. I puked thinking about all the filthy water that we had been using for God knows how long because there was no proof of their speculation. Then the worst problem yet. The soaking wet bathroom floor was our battle until the very end. May told me the wet floor that I noticed since day one was due to water flowing down from the sink counter. But the continuous water sipping through the linoleum floor lead us to believe there is water accumulated underneath the flooring. I slipped and fell one day when stepping out to the tile floor in the living room with my soaking wet slippers. This would be a major repair job so I told May to fix it after we leave. We truly hope future guests wouldn’t have to suffer like we did. We have photos to prove authenticity of everything I described, including the disgusting cockroaches. May said that we chose Airbnb because we wanted homey feeling which comes along with those daily homeowner problems. Well we certainly did not sign up Airbnb to deal with problems which never happened to us back home. After all, we are on VACATION, right? Lesson learned: notify Airbnb immediately when an issue rises, or they won’t get involved when a dispute happens later. If we had to rate this unit, a 2-star would be generous. Convenient location and spacious living for two people are the biggest merits. But the price we paid is definitely not worth the value. We encourage guests on Airbnb to frankly share their experiences so that other fellow guests would benefit, not mislead with high expectations. In conclusion, we would not come back and recommend this listing to our friends.