After a quick look around, we decided to leave and stay elsewhere at our own expense, losing $400 on a two night booking. Repeatedly the host refused to refund anything more than $10, and gaslighted us about our opinion of the quality of the place after we promptly informed them of our decision. Stay at your own risk - you will not be refunded if you get there and find the same things we did. Comfort and safety are two of our top concerns where we stay, so I could not recommend this place on those two factors especially given the price per night for this place in comparison to a hotel downtown. Beware the pictures and description, as it does not point out anything rough around the edges so hopefully this updates after this review (October, 2022). For anyone tall or with small children, I especially do not recommend this place. There were too many signs of the attention to detail missing, and I questioned the overall cleanliness and inevitably, the safety of the space.
More detail: What is not pictured are ceilings which are sagging and discolored, which makes the space seem claustrophobic along with the drab painted-over basement walls. This is not a place for anyone tall. The bed is not comfortable, was creaky, and had sharp screws just sticking out of the headboard which seems like it used to be connected to a wall. With sharp screws sticking out the way they were, it is not safe for small children to be poking around near. There is one half of a single window and it is clouded and mucky, with a bar on the other side of it. Your secondary escape door goes into some unfinished space, and just has a locked door handle on it next to your bedroom with an air gap underneath that would not be tight enough to block off anything small from crawling through into your side. The fact that I started thinking that way, was a reason we left. When we were there, there was a pile of hair and dust underneath the bed, and you could tell there were other spots the cleaners regularly never do, like in the dusty window well behind the curtain that hides the blocked window above the bed. That all impacts the air quality. There are also a lot of pipes just painted over which carry the water through the bedroom so you can hear that trickling through. The floorboards and floorboard heaters are beaten up and old. The yard was not much, with construction ongoing to the exterior of the apartment above this one. The neighboring church is boarded up (on the side where the bar is on the one window). The space off the main bedroom can be used for TV or sitting on the futon pictured, but the futon is very small and barely more than a cot. The kitchenette was also wedged between old wooden stairs. The bathroom was small.