The place is one apartment in an older house, where there are 5 total units. Overall it was in a good location and the building was fine. It was definitely a small apartment, but that was our expectation.
The challenging part was that the host was very unresponsive. The check in instructions were vague (we were supposed to meet the host at the house, but she never told us she’d be there). We weren’t sure they’d be there to let us in up till we physically arrived at the house with our bags and luckily her husband happened to be around. This experience was both unnerving and unsurprisingly the same for the other tenants in the building we talked to about it. The other tenants also found her very unresponsive.
But also due to the Covid-19, we tried to extend our stay. We asked the host a month before our time was up if we could and she said it was fine once we both signed a contract (off of Airbnb). She promised she would send the contract that evening, but never did. After a week of waiting for it, we once again inquired, she said she would send a contract that day and never did. Same process a week later, still no contract. Finally we found a new place at a different location with much more responsive hosts. 2 days before our final date she messaged us saying she would finally send a contract through - for leases that are 60 days, I think expecting people to wait till the very last minute is unreasonable. Especially recognizing the stay at home orders that were in place...