The apartment was very cute. Arrived on a Tuesday and checked out on a Thursday. Check in was smooth. In all it was a good place to stay and walking distance to my daughters apartment.
A few things annoyed my mother, she is almost 70. (it was just the 2 of us). she doesnt have an Air bnb account so she asked I mention them.
1. No top sheet on the bed. My mom worked in hospitality for 17 years & said a top sheet should always be between the person and the comforter. (since comforters don't normally get washed with each guest turn over)
2. No soap or shower gel in bathroom. (we forgot ours, we just used shampoo to bath with )
3. The tub was nice and clean but very slippery. My mom thought a mat should be placed there to help prevent falls. We did like the shower, and tub just fine.
4. What seemed to be a bullet hole in one of the livingroom windows freaked my mom out. There was a note attached beside it saying it had been reported and they hope it didn't bother us. My mother was already nervous about going to Chicago, cause she thinks it's crime ridden. I assured her that neighborhood was fine, I visited there in July. I know things like this happen in all neighborhoods, but it's almost like that shattered window proved her point. There was a protective glass over it so no air was leaking in and the cracked glass was not Hazzard to anyone.
5. Clogged kitchen sink the whole visit annoyed my mother. It would drain just super slow, took like an hour. The owners did let me know they just found out it was clogged tuesday afternoon by the cleaning crew & had called maintenance. Told me to expect them, and I would be notified when maintenance was on the way.
6. Thursday A.M. we were woken by knocks on door from Maintenance man. He came to fix the kitchen sink. Great, but we check out in 2.5 hours and we didn't know he was on the way, and we are in our Jammy's with a strange man in the apartment with us. I emailed the owners and said he was there waking us up to work on the sink, apparently they didn't know he was on the way either. Someone dropped that ball on communication, Not sure who. We even went sight seeing all day Wednesday and I let the owner know we'd be out till 4pm in case the maintenance man wanted to come by.
7. Lastly, right at 10am when we were picking up to leave my mom accidentally dropped a white cereal bowl and it broke in half. We threw it away & wiped up the sink so no chips of glass would get washed down the sink. I notified the owner we were leaving & about the broken cereal bowl. The owners said it was ok, and it could be replaced. However 10 or 15 min later they emailed asking for a picture of the broken bowl. We were already gone, I had not thought to take a photo of it. I just let them know it was a plain white cereal bowl like the others in the cabinets. I began to think about this and found that strange, it was like their ok with renting out a place with a bullet hole in the livingroom window but your worried about a broken cereal bowl?
In all the place was fine, and I wasnt nearly annoyed as my mother about the soap, or top sheet, or tub mat. But, Then thursday morning that maintenance man showing up at 8am unannounced and asking for a pic of a broken cereal bowl sorta aggrevated me.
I guess a lot of this stuff was out of everyones control, (window, maintenance man and sink clogged) but man it's crummy it all happen in one visit.