BEWARE! This was the worst experience I’ve ever had at Airbnb and you should expect the same.
People who wrote things like, “it’s not what I expected” were trying to be kind. Let me help other prospective renters.
-Entry is by key code. You are asked not to manually lock the door because it does so on its own. However, I am unsure if this is true. The locking system didn’t seem to work.
-The house does creak as noted in other reviews. Mostly the stairs up to where all sleeping quarters are.
-The shared living spaces are presented well but things like sanitizing and dusting are not an important part of her cleaning methods, as hinted toward in other reviews.
-The bathroom is dirty as noted in other reviews. The sink seems to be wiped with a dry paper towel. She called the bathtub aged, but even an old tub that was painted over and over again can be cleaned after each and every tenant. This one is not. No one has swept, mopped, sanitized, or dusted the bathroom in awhile. When told that the bathroom wasn’t clean she did not come to the home and clean it nor send any messages claiming an intent to do so.
-The room has a window unit for air conditioning. The window has broken blinds and I told her about it. She told me that the window faces the park and there are trees in front of the window so it didn’t matter. Later… In messages to Airbnb, she pretended that I may have broke her blinds and only learned that the blinds were broken after my stay. Made no attempt to fix it nor expressed intent to fix the issue during my stay.
-I had to make a safety complaint about someone jingling the door handle in the middle of the night and when I discussed this with the owner, she claimed I made it up and that no one was in the house with me. After reading her reviews, I learned that she lives in the basement of the house and she could’ve easily come in to check to see if I had arrived, but she never admitted this to me or Airbnb. She continued to claim that I was in the home alone. Her car parked in the driveway gave that away.
-The host did not respect the rules provided by Airbnb regarding contact with tenants and insisted that I should accept her phone calls, even after I told her I only communicate through Airbnb. The host did not respond respectfully to any issues I made known to her about the stay.
-The stay was horrible but the behavior of the host added only insult to injury.