I was very excited to stay at this house because the listing sounded incredible, but I was sorely disappointed once we arrived.

At first Hutch was pleasant and responsive, but a few days before we arrived I had a request that seemed to change things. I am allergic to down bedding and asked if it was possible to have any down pillows removed from the house during our stay. Hutch got back to me very quickly and told me that everything was down and he thought that we should cancel and stay somewhere else. However, he wouldn't give us any type of refund. ( I kinda got the feeling he just wanted to be able to double book the place) Since we couldn't get a refund I decided I would try to make it work. I asked if he could have his housekeeper move the bedding from the second bedroom to the master and shut that door. I then could bring my own bedding along. When we arrived his housekeeper had moved everything like I had asked, but it was just tossed into a heap on the bed. I was very surprised at the state of the house knowing that the housekeeper had just been there. There was a very pungent animal smell in the house that was almost unbearable and the second bedroom floor was covered in dirt, hair and pills. We then noticed that on the beds there was only bottom sheets that were dirty with another person's hair all over. We then found the rest of the sheets wet in the washing machine and there was a dirty dish towel in the sink.
The cleanliness wasn't the most concerning thing, the neighborhood was. The description of the neighborhood was copy and pasted from Wikipedia, but Hutch conveniently left out the part about it being a primarily African American, low income neighborhood that has seen a large increase in violent crimes recently.

The city is trying to make this place the next up and coming place, but it's far from it at this time. The local neighborhood people are not happy about the attempted gentrification and it shows with the way they will not acknowledge people that come to this house except for looks of contempt. Check out this link about a recent article about the St. Rock Market and how local people feel about it.

http://www.nola.com/neighborhoods/2015/06/st_roch_neighborhoods_1.html

One night were heard yelling, car doors slamming and cops rushing down the street with their sirens on. The next night there were two men standing in front of the house blasting vulgar music from a boom box.
After we left this house I checked the NOLA crime map and it showed serious amount of crime within a one mile radius of the house including several assaults.
http://www.crimemapping.com/map/la/neworleans

We ended up leaving after two nights because I didn't believe it was a safe place for my young son to be. You definitely will not have a tourist experience here.