PLEASE STAY WITH CAUTION! A lil discretion for those who will be staying at Marks place. There is a serious fly issue in his studio so much so that he keeps a big UV lamp inside the apartment which does not help out at all with attracting and killing them. Upon arrival my wife and I noticed the flies and started swatting them with a towel. After a good 10minutes of chasing them around I managed to kill 5 and realized there were more just lingering attached to the drapes and inside the restroom. Therefore we started swatting them again, not only was this an issue there was a strong cleaning product odor that after an hr of breathing it in left us with headaches and shortness of breath. This was a real concern since my wife was 8 weeks pregnant at the time. The studio has poor air circulation and left us with the only option of leaving a small window open that did not help much, we could not keep the sliding door open since this would just allow more flies to enter the apartment. We reached out to Mark and he had his house keeper come to the apartment and deliver a fan, it helped a Lil with the odor but not at all with the flies. The 3days we were there felt like we were camping with the the flies rather than enjoying time off in SF. Airbnb has done little to mediate this matter and we are still awaiting a response to whether we will receive our payment back. This experience has left us concerned about the cleanliness of marks place and the faith we have in Airbnb to resolve issue. Again please reconsider staying here, we wish we had another option to stay somewhere else but the only other option was trying to get a hotel short noticed when the city of SF was about 90% booked and would have had to pay well over $300 a night for a decent room.
With regret,
Emmanuel