My reservation got approved super quickly and the area seemed relatively safe. However…the place was not properly kept up.
The air conditioner was broken. Heather said she would understand if I needed to find another place and would refund me without penalty, but I was exhausted from moving multiple times over the course of a week and decided I would just try and make it work. At this point, Heather offered to have someone come and look at the A/C, but it took around 5 days for someone to come check it out, and they couldn’t fix it. There was a small fan that kept me going during this time period.
I could not access keys to the unit I was staying in (which is a room in the garage), so I couldn’t fully lock up after myself when I left. The wifi on the reservation listing was not the actual wifi, so I had some trouble getting connected at first. Once connected, it was pretty patchy so a heads up if you’re working remotely or need access to the internet. The backyard was pretty unkempt (tall weeds, not recently cleaned, etc). There were a few other things that were off— the curtain that was meant to separate the bathroom from the rest of the unit was not up and one of the handles to hold it up was duct taped on (barely).
One of the outlets looked like it had been blown out before.. which scared me a little bit but luckily had no issues with that. There was also some pretty major wear on the big chair in the main area, and there were stains on the bottom of the primary curtain.
When I was finally able to leave after 9 days, I also had issues with the refund process.
Overall I would not recommend this airbnb. Obviously in retrospect, I should’ve taken the offer to leave immediately, but even had the AC worked..it definitely did not live up to the photos.