To start, when we walked in we noticed the place wasn’t the cleanest. Walls and blinds had stains, oven was very dirty. Master room smelled of cigarettes. Window sills had dust on them. We tried to look past all that but on our 5th or 6th night we saw a rat in the water heater closet which is in the living room. We barricaded the Closet door with a towel and Chair and tried communicated with the host. The host said she would send a cleaner, when we asked for pest control she didn’t respond for over 24 hours. We reached out to Airbnb support and that’s when she finally responded saying she couldn’t do anything because it was the weekend. We bought a trap with our own money to deal with the issue ourselves, which we requested reimbursement for and still have not received.
During our stay the host also called and informed us she was selling the place and wanted to know if she could send her realtor with a potential buyer. We packed up our valuables and left for about two hours to give the realtor time to show off the property. Apparently the realtor never showed up, we informed the host that we wouldn’t be comfortable having anyone come again since we’re both travel nurses and couldn’t just keep packing up all our valuables whenever there’s a showing. The next day she texted again asking if the realtor could come by, we were annoyed that she even asked again after we said we weren’t comfortable with it.
Another issue was parking. We understand how parking is in DC but it would’ve been nice to know that they’re doing construction on the street and they don’t allow parking Monday-Saturday. We had to walk for BLOCKS sometimes because parking was super limited.
Overall, the host was very uncommunicative, did not even attempt to be accommodating or fix the problems that arose during our stay, and even attempted to have US show the house to a realtor, while we work full time as nurses. Very unprofessional, I would definitely not recommend this AirBNB to anyone thinking it’s a good value for the price of the space.