I didn’t have a great experience during my stay. I think this was because the property and living situation wasn’t accurately described on the Airbnb website.

This is a high activity/party house. There is a hookah lounge at the front of the house by the living room and the “private courtyard” is used by quite a few guests for drinking, smoking cigarettes/marijuana, music, hanging out etc. The private entrance into the bamboo room leads directly to this courtyard, so it can be noisy in the room.

The bamboo room is located at the back of the main house and is one of 6 rooms on the property. It shares the private courtyard with two other rentals, one that is semi-attached to the main house and the other is free-standing. All entries are within ~ 2 meters of each other, so fairly close together. These rentals were high occupancy, for example during my stay one of the units regularly had 5+ guests and there was also high turnover.

The main house has an additional 3 guest rooms. These rooms share a single bathroom that is located off of the same hallway with the second entrance into the bamboo room. These 3 rooms were also high occupancy and high turnover; during my stay individual rooms would have 3+ guests. This meant there was a lot of people traffic in the hallway with so many guests sharing the same bathroom.

I found the kitchen to be generally messy. There were always dirty dishes in the sink area and little room for food in the refrigerator. I was able to keep some milk and a few small items, but I was never able to cook due to lack of space, the general dearth of pots/pans, cooking utensils, and cleanliness problems.

Parking was also a logistic problem. I ended up getting blocked in by other cars several times and had to wait up to an hour to get out. The only way to resolve the problem was to notify Josh of my schedule the night before and give him access to my car keys so he could essentially valet cars around the property. Often my car was left on the street.

Personally, I didn’t want to live at a party house - there were parties every week, during the week, and on weekends. I felt that Josh expected guests to go along with whatever events were organized. Anytime I brought up concerns, I was treated like there was something wrong with me - I'm sensitive, stressed, etc... For example, one of the other longer term tenants would regularly practice playing drums (full size rock and roll drum set) and Josh told me I was sensitive/under stress (i.e., unreasonable) for not being ok with that. (My cat practically went bald the poor thing was so stressed). There was never any acknowledgement on Josh's side that the problem might be his misrepresentation of the property.

I was happy to leave.