In my five years of using air bnb I have never given a bad review. So when I write this review it is certainly one people should consider closely.
We stayed at this space for 6 months. My wife hated it but it was close to my two jobs ( I was working 7 days to recover financially from Covid 19 ) so we toughed it out. We did not see the host until our last 3 or 4 days here. He was absent the entirety of the stay and he does not live on the premises.
The space:
We made this reservation based on location and rent. We stayed here for 6 months, however it is not equipped for anything over a few days.
The Kitchen that does not exist:
There is no stove. The hot plates provided were ancient. And if turned on while the tv and any other appliance was on would trip the fuse.
There is not counter space.
The sink is placed as such that you would reach it only if you were 6 ft or above. Other wise it would be an uphill battle to get to it.
The Restroom:
To begin with it is the tiniest restroom you will ever come across. The pipes froze in the middle of the winter and we had no water for multiple days. We had to bring water from the store to survive.
The faucet in the restroom sink never had running water after the pipes first froze and the even after informing the host it was never fixed.
There is no ventilation in the restroom so it literally gets moldy if you do not clean it. Gross.
The shower has either boiling hot water or freezing cold. There is no medium. If you are in the middle of a shower and your partner uses the kitchen sink. The water becomes insanely hot or cold!
The Furniture:
The furniture is old and dirty. The bed was creaking so bad at night we could not sleep. I had to eventually buy a key and fix it myself.
The couch. It is beat down and just old. The cushion slides off of the metal base. I had to use para cord to tie it so it would stay in place.
The coffee table and the closet sways every-time you use them.
There are no windows period.
DIrt, dirt , dirt:
The back yard has no grass. It is all dirt. So if you dnt clean this space twice daily expect to have dirt EVERYWHERE.
The electric supplies trip if you use a few different things at the same time.
Towards the end we were routinely being visited by the neighborhood mousy.
The Host:
The host was absent for the entirety of our stay. We never saw him until the very end.
I asked the host if we could set up a mail box to receive our mail. He suggested to get the utilities transferred under our name and then take the bill to usps to get the mail box set up. Did just that. Went to USPS and they said the space is not registered with the city and thus no mail box can be set up. I paid utilities for the next three months myself ( 400$+)We had to force him to take utilities back again.I have the receipts if anyone would like to see.
On his listing he says “ FREE STREET PARKING “. Incorrect. Permit parking only. No other parking available. He had two cars, a trailer and his first floor tenants care all parked in the back yard. Where do we park? I have the receipt for the fine.
We initially made a three month booking. We asked him we wanted to extend. He made us do an entirely new reservation. I paid for the booking fees and cleaning fees again. The second cleaning was never done. I asked him to refund us. He simply choose to ignore my request.
The day when he finally showed up for the first time 5 months in to our stay he started harassing my wife for having a couple of garbage bags on the patio. We had been living here for 6 months and were in the middle of moving out. We were cleaning the space and getting rid of a bunch of things. So the garbage bags accumulated. Since I work seven 12’s my wife was left alone to do everything. She is a tiny person and could not move all the bags by herself. Plus she saw some of the bags had been ripped and was afraid the mouse that had done that would bite her so she wanted me to help move the bags.
His second complain was the he moved his ‘personal items’ outside. We placed his cutlery, towels , cushions, toaster , crock pot and a garden fan in boxes the first week we arrived and stored them in a corner of the room. Over the following months as we lived in less the 500 sq feet of space we had more and more things. So we started moving the boxes outside under the covered patio. We moved here from the midwest so I have an abundance of tarps in my truck. Everything was covered and sealed. We had a bunch of our stuff in boxes in the patio as well. I should have asked him about it though. Made a mistake there I admit.
Later one day when he finally met me for the very first time he continued with his harassing behavior and even after I assured him that we will leave the space as we found it and we will replace anything within reason he kept saying , ’ we will see’ ‘we will see’.
The harassing behavior continued over the next few days. He kept bothering my wife every-time he saw her. I was away at work and my wife would literally lock herself in the room just to