The property is well located, not far away from the DLR.
However, the house is old and clearly has not had proper maintenance for a long time. In this sense, in the kitchen and in the bathroom, it is possible to observe that the ceiling is falling down on the walls and on the roof.
In addition, the house was artificially adapted to acomodate 5 rooms, for one shared kitchen and shower, what should be more clearly described in the advertisement.
The absence of minimum conditions to accommodate this amount of people could be clearly seen when my husband and I stayed 20 days in this property.
At that time, we were in 7 persons for one shower. Almost on a daily basis, we had to take cold showers, especially during the night, as there was not enough hot water. I contacted the host and his assistant in the beginning of my stay reporting the cold showers, but they clearly did not take the case seriously. Both simply told me that the reason for the cold water was that someone was taking long showers during the day. Therefore, they instructed the residents to take shorter showers - in a clear attempt to transfer the responsibility to the residents, as if this problem was something normal - but the water was constantly cold anyway. We had even to change our routines, trying to find the moments when we could take showers with some hot water, but the problem persisted and sometimes we just gave up to take a shower.
The alleged reason for this was that this house had an obsolete system with a small tank, and when the hot water finished, we needed to wait for hours for it to come back. When we had very cold water even in the early morning, and the heating was not working either, the host and his assistant finally decided to investigate the case, and discovered that apparently there was a problem in the communal system as well (which, I was informed, was not under their control).
When I was about to end my stay there, the host sent me a message asking for negative feedbacks to be sent privately. For obvious reasons, I don’t think this is fair with future residents, which should be aware of this situation.