I enjoyed the location of Sam's place. Overall, the apartment was cute and well equipped. My friend and I loved its proximity to the shops on Magazine St. where we made our bank accounts sad 🙃.
Communication with Sam was difficult. We requested for an early check-in before our trip a few times and never heard back. The day before, I received detailed check-in instructions which was nice but which clearly was a template message and ignored all my earlier messages. The same thing happened for check-out. We did run into an issue with termite swarms in the house. As it was my first time in NOLA, I was unaware of such a phenomenon - would've been helpful to have gotten a heads-up. Sam did promptly send a cleaning crew to sweep up the wings. However, he ignored subsequent messages.
The stay itself wasn't too bad overall but because of these issues, we would gladly pay more to stay in a hotel next time.