We stayed in Alejandro’s place for about 2 months.
The good: Good location if you have a car, two bedrooms, there’s a non-fenced backyard. Good amount of space. Alejandro was also responsive. The guests in the other Airbnb were very nice.
The not good: This place needs attention, an ounce of effort, and better cleaning, and wasn’t fully accurate.
- Note that this place shares the lot/backyard with another Airbnb which is fine but the listing doesn’t note that you also share tandem parking and outdoor laundry with the other unit as well. Street parking wasn’t too bad except Mondays and Tuesday’s (street cleaning).
- The house wasn’t clean, lots of hair and cobwebs. Our dog found a glue trap for a mouse with a dead mouse on it, that looked like it’d been there for months.
- The couch is comically half of a couch, it’s literally missing the other half - it barely fits two people and there’s no coffee table or other seating in the living room.
- The house doesn’t actually have air conditioning as listed, just one small swamp cooler, which would be fine for the weather we had but if you’re coming in July, August or September I’d keep that in mind.
- The house is in a bit of disrepair, with hardware and furniture barely held together (noisy fan, toilet paper holder falling off the wall, dresser drawers falling out, dishwasher door falls open, fridge water dispenser/ice maker don’t work, etc).
- There was 0 toilet paper or paper towels when we arrived, Alejandro delivered some late at night and blamed the housekeeper but then when guests arrived into the other unit a few days later, they also didn’t somehow have any. He also just shows up without warning which was frustrating for my remote work.
- We had to hunt to find the one single pan in the kitchen to use
- The “coffee maker” is just a French press / kettle with no coffee grinder.
Ultimately this place was below expectations especially for a long stay, and the pictures of it are a bit deceiving / appear outdated. With a little attention and effort it could be good.