Good parts:
1. The location is good. You can easily walk to many places, and the CTA stations are also pretty close to this place.
2. Check-in is easy. You can use a mobile app to access the building and the room.
3. Quiet place during the night
4. Many restaurants/bars nearby, and some of them open until 2 am
5. The living room is quite big
6. Pretty bright during the morning since it is the top level of the building
Things that can be improved:
1. The water pressure is pretty low, and they didn't mention that on the listing page
2. Sometimes there is no hot water, and we all have to take a shower with cold water. The host told us that this might be the issue of the building (who should be responsible for this issue?)
3. The sofa bed is a bit dirty, when we unfolded it, we saw some dust falling from it.
4. The AC is quite loud during the night. It was pretty hard to sleep during the night. I recommend preparing earplugs if anyone wants to sleep in the living room (the single bed and the sofa bed)
5. The kitchen is not bad. However, there is some strange smell in the water kettle, so we did not use that.
6. According to the house rule on the listing page, we don't have to do any cleaning work before checkout, and there is a $100 cleaning fee included. However, the host still asks us to throw the trash, clean dishes, remove all bedsheets, and put dirty towers together. It would be nice to put these rules on the listing page.
7. The blinds in both bedrooms are pretty broken. It was easy to wake up at 6 am due to the sunlight.
8. There is not much indoor lighting, so it is dark at night
Some minor things which won't change the overall rating:
1. Only one bathroom, think twice if you have a big group like us want to stay in this place :)
2. There are only five chairs in the living room; someone needs to sit somewhere else since we have six people :(
3. TV will turn automatically during the night(3 am)