Monty’s place is an excellent location. It’s also quite cheap for the size and location.
Overall, the apt got the job done but was very much a “you get what you paid for” experience. I will share a few things I wish I could have known prior to my stay and you judge whether it’s the right fit for you:
- 1 room reeked of marijuana.
- 1 room strongly reeked of body odor and we just couldn’t get the smell out.
- 1 room was amazing - except it had a window that wouldn’t lock. Traveling with my toddler, I felt very unsafe sleeping with a window that couldn’t lock on the ground floor.
- The apartment was not well cleaned upon arrival. I’ll spare the details but if cleanliness is important, you may find it quite lacking.
- There is a door to an adjoining room/apt that he also rents out that was fully unlocked and accessible when we first arrived. We had to figure out how to lock each door. This added to my safety concern.
- There is an open air vent that is quite large and I worried the whole stay about my toddler climbing into it. If you have small kids or pets, you may not like that aspect either.
To add to this, after we left, I received an angry phone call from Monty telling me we “destroyed” his apartment. It wasn’t clear to me what the specific problem(s) were - he said we stained his dining chairs (this may be true - our toddler was eating a lot of PB&Js), but he also said something about Elmer’s glue everywhere - we had absolutely no idea what that was about as we did not do anything with the random jug of Elmer’s glue that was present under the sink when we arrived and was still there untouched when we left. We did have to take the stove knobs off of the stove to prevent my toddler from starting a fire and we forgot to put them back on, so that may have been annoying for him. The part that disturbed me about the call was that at the end he angrily said “so what are you going to do about it?” And I said “I think AirBnB is supposed to manage complaints” and he seemed to not like that answer. I feel badly if we left his two chairs with jelly stains and would have paid via Airbnb to have them cleaned but no request or follow up came through.
Overall, had I known some of the initial bullets, we would have booked elsewhere. That said, it is a great location and might be a good spot for you if those bullets above aren’t an issue for you.