For the numerous times we’ve been to Chicago and leveraged Airbnb, this was by far the biggest disappointment. We were asked a day in advance to take off our shoes due to others who rented below us and trying to keep the noise down. However, the renters above this place consistently came home around 9:30-10:30 pm and made a ton of noise waking up our child. The house is an older house with hard wood floors that creaked a lot which makes sense for the ask to remove shoes, but the listing made it seem as if we were going to be the only ones here at this location and clearly we were not.
On our last night, the neighbors stood outside the rental unit at the entrance for a good 1/2 hour while smoking and talking loudly.
On our last day we were asked to take the trash out and wash our own dishes which was a first for us at an Airbnb. Normally this isn’t a huge deal, but with the poor location/neighborhood and this ask, it left a significantly poor mark on this trip.