Despite the shadiness of listing the apartment in Hollywood when it’s actually in Inglewood, we decided to book this Airbnb. The first issue was the host messaging me the night before our stay started telling me neighbors were complaining about the noise. I confirmed with him that we had not checked in yet and he apologized, but it let me know a party was taking place there the night before our arrival.
When we arrived the apartment had not been cleaned. The rug was filthy and had bits of food and wrappers on it. There were ants in the main room and bathrooms. There was hair in the shower and on the bathroom floor.
No hand towels had been put out. The dishwasher had been run but the dishes hadn’t been put away. And there were crumbs left in the pull out cutting boards from the counter. Towels and sheets were left in the washer so I moved them to dryer myself to keep them from getting moldy. The main thing that had been done to “clean” was spraying a very strong unpleasant fragrance to try to mask any stench.
I messaged Timmy to let him know about the issues - I sent him some pictures of specific spots. He blamed it on using his backup housekeeper to clean. On my request, he refunded the rather expensive cleaning fee he charged, which was appreciated. He said someone would be out the next morning to clean between 10 and 11. We waited until 11:44 but they did not come. We left for the day, came back once for a couple hours in the afternoon. Left again and came back in the evening to find someone in the apartment. He didn’t bring a vacuum or swiffer or anything, so he could only sweep the main floor. A bunch of dust and debris came up from the sweep. He cleaned the bathrooms.
Then on our last full day (checkout was the following day), we were sitting in the main room when a woman came into the apartment, saw us, and backed out saying she was housekeeping. Very jarring.
Walls are very thin so you hear everything on the street. Apartment building is old and seems a bit rundown in the halls and main areas. Toilet paper roll in one of the bathrooms is broken. Definitely would not recommend booking this place.