Miho was a fine host. Her listing was generally clean and welcoming, as pictured, though a few minor repairs were certainly necessary to the furniture (e.g., loose seats at the table) or home (e.g., scraped wall paint). (We alerted Miho to these repairs, but there was no action taken on most of them during our month-long stay.)
The two most important things to know about this listing are:
(1) No recycling
Miho does not provide a recycling bin, so there is no way to properly dispose of recyclables. There is only one trash bin at the property, so the expectation seems to be to trash all recyclable materials. When we asked about recycling (because we weren’t comfortable with trashing recyclables), Miho just reconfirmed that there is only the one trash bin on the property. We hope that this situation is resolved. (It is actually against a San Diego city ordinance to not have recycling: https://www.sandiego.gov/environmental-services/recycling/ro .)
(2) Required cleaning crew visits
If you stay for longer than one week, Miho may insist on her cleaning crew working on the listing during your stay. Especially because we knew we would be staying for a month, we were careful to be cleaning the listing as we lived there. (We even proactively washed the outdoor cushion covers, since they’d gathered a lot of outdoor debris before we’d gotten there.) So, when Miho messaged to ask about her cleaning crew about midway through our stay, we politely declined, as we didn’t need the service and didn’t feel comfortable with having an unknown crew come through our space. Miho then refused to accept our decline and insisted that we allow the cleaning crew to come (at an agreed time). Ultimately, the service was a nice-to-have. The crew was polite and completely changed out our sheets and towels, in addition to generally wiping down the place. That positive outcome, however, would have felt much nicer, if we’d known in advance that we’d be required to allow the crew through our space and the general communication around the crew had been most positive. To experience a refusal of a polite decline to what seemed like an extra service offered was the most negative experience we had during this generally fine stay.