Problems
- Every morning, and often during the day, our apartment smelled like marijuana smoke from the apartment below.
- Everything except the kitchen was caked in dust, and the floor didn’t seem to have been swept or mopped.
- Even though the kitchen had been wiped down, the countertops had old food crusted onto them. Many glasses in the cupboards were dirty and needed to be cleaned before use.
- The bath tub wasn’t clean — there was leftover slime and product from previous guests.
- The glass top of the desk in the office space was dirty with smears and dust.
- Two windows in the apartment are broken (outer pane only), and the glass is still sitting in them.
- The office space decorations on the shelf are dozens of empty wine bottles, many of which are still sticky with dried remains of their contents. The wine bottles hung on the wall are similarly empty and sticky. The space around the bottles is caked with dust, as are the bottles themselves.
- Several of the chairs were broken. They shift out of place where the joints have failed when you sit on them, and feel likely to break apart if you spend any time sitting in them.
- The flooring is coming apart at the seams. This problem has been covered with rugs to hide them.
Good Stuff
- The host was kind, and available for any needs.
- The host was generous with parking, providing us with a residential parking sticker for street parking, as well as offering for us to store both our vehicle and cargo trailer in their gated parking space.
- The host provided many materials for local restaurants and bars to help us explore, including pamphlets and booklets. We found the recommendations we tried to be great.
- We appreciated the provided snacks, water bottles, and hand sanitation station by the door.
- The apartment is well-located, and we were able to easily access all of the things we wanted to see while visiting Chicago.