Note that I did not actually enter or stay at the apartment due to the appalling conditions of the building’s environment...its streetscape.
When I arrived outside, the first thing that hit me was the visual wasteland that the building inhabited. The worst eyesore was a truck immediately outside the flat’s windows overflowing with building rubble. Other old vehicles were parked out the front.
The building I could only assume was the one had no street number but on enquiry was indeed the one. The front door swung on its hinges without being able to close or lock. The house numbers in the street had no apparent sequence.
I stuck my head into the stairwell and was confronted with a sight which further alarmed me.
At one point a guy rang me to urge me to move into the flat. I refused and went to catch a cab into Manchester city to stay at a hotel.
I disputed the host’s depiction of the streetscape (no sight of visual nightmare) with Airbnb but they said their policies do not cover the exterior, only the the interior.
Buyer beware!