The communication with Hollis was pretty top-notch, he allowed me to check in after midnight as we had a 10 hour drive, he did send the pin code for the door but I didn't know how to put it in because I didn't know you had to hit something on the keypad to make the numbers light up, I was starting to second-guess if I was In the right location because the front porch had about seven pairs of shoes on it which I just hadn't seen at an Airbnb before, the front porch has cameras all over it (which is a plus), when you enter you notice lots of monitoring inside of the house as well ( although I didn't know if this was motion detection or if these were actually recording) and then I noticed several pairs of shoes inside of the house, I didn't realize until then that we were not the only people staying there. I read in the description that the owner would be on premise as much or as little as needed but didn't fully understand that he either lives there in the room that had a pair of shoes outside of it or just had other guests there as well. I didn't really feel like I could actually enjoy myself because I can tell when I got there and I was confused about the pin code set up and called him that I woke him up which I felt incredibly bad for and I didn't want to further disturb anybody so I couldn't take a shower because I was afraid I would wake somebody up with the sound of the shower or wind down and watch a little TV because again I didn't want to disturb anyone after they had been hospitable enough to let me arrive so late, the house is absolutely immaculate, the bed is incredibly comfortable, the house is kept at a perfect temperature and the decorations are so beautiful you just want to make several laps around the house because attention to detail was definitely not skipped with Hollis, the decorations are very unique and you can tell he put a lot of thought into everything in this house.
I guess my only recommendation would be putting in very clear text in the listing that it is a shared space with other guests because if you say you live on premise that could be on the entire property which includes a guesthouse in the back or something, just didn't know it was going to be in the same house. Also didn't realize that this neighborhood is considered to be in the ghetto which I was informed about later but I'm not familiar with New Orleans so this wasn't apparent to me at the time, nothing happened with theft or anything like that, my vehicle was in the exact same condition as I left it in and you can tell he keeps up his property very well compared to the properties around it. Inside of the house in the kitchen we found notes from his previous guests to him which were very positive, just found it a little bit odd to find one on the counter and under the lid of the trashcan? It's honestly my fault for getting there so late, if I would've gotten there earlier I'm sure I would've had a chance to meet him and find all of this out sooner rather than later and be able to take my shower and watch TV and such, I do appreciate you Hollis and I thank you for being hospitable to me!