Our experience at Lexie & Graham’s was very polarized. There were pros but in the end they were eclipsed by the cons to the point that we left several days early & would not return.
Pros:
It was clean & well furnished.
It is in a good location & is close to public transit.
The hosts were responsive & seemed like genuinely nice people. They refunded us for the nights we didn’t use when we decided to leave early.
Cons:
The hosts live upstairs & it was VERY noisy, especially in the back bedroom. The noise lasted well past the 9pm “quiet hours” to the point that we texted them 3 nights in a row, sometimes as late as 1am. I even took a video & offered to share it with them. I’ve lived in lots of apartments in Chicago with plenty of upstairs neighbors over the years & never experienced noise like that. Part of the issue might be that the apt is accessed via the foyer of the hosts apt. You literally come through the front hall of their home to enter so your entrance is not private.