Please get ready because this review is going to be a mouthful.
I was excited to visit New Orleans with a few of my gal friends. I thought Normans house was exceptional in the photos which is what made me want to choose his place over others.
The first thing that I noticed during my stay was that our rental home wasn't located in a safe neighborhood and we consistently felt unsafe throughout our stay due to neighbors looking over their gate into our rental; granted you cant always choose your neighbor but if you are a woman or with a group of women with safety as high priority I would consider a different location.
We were also offered to be sold DRUGS by these neighbors which our friends were extremely uncomfortable by. We did not expect to be living by a drug house by any-means especially after viewing these amazing photos.
Another HUGE thing we noticed is that the furniture completely differs from the furniture listed in the photo. I was under the impression that there would be day beds in the 2nd bedroom only to find bunkbeds; which would have altered our rental decision. Also the couch located in the living was not the couch in photos and appeared to be damaged and propped together. We planned to use that living couch during our stay but choose to be considerate and stay away from it.
HERE'S THE KICKER.. the couch that wasn't original to the advertised photos that appeared propped up was later on suggested that my guest damaged it at the end of our stay. I was extremely disappointed to hear that I would then be bill $325.99 for a couch that I didnt even know was going to be apart of my rental.
Now you would think that I would take photos prior to my stay but we only rented the house for 2 nights and one of the nights my guest stayed at our friends rental and of course we enjoyed the city.
PLEASE TAKE PHOTOS OF EVERYTHING IN THIS RENTAL BECAUSE THE OWNERS WILL BILL YOU!!!!!!!
Lastly, the floors and dishes weren't sanitary.. being that we are taking risk of staying at a rental during COVID and paying for a clean home as avid airbnb guest I would expect more from our host.
I pride myself on honestly as a renter, and I hoped to get that back from our host. I've never damaged or got a bad complaint from any of my previous host and would hope Norman will see this review and reverse the billed charges.
Other than that the kitchen and master bathroom looked beautiful.
I hate to leave such an unsatisfactory honest review but if I were on the flip-end of considering the host I would hope the previous guest would have honest reviews of their experience.
*** I also will be speaking to airbnb and my credit card company to dispute charges of a couch that I wasn't aware of.