My friend and I booked with Natalia bc the pictures in her ad looked so nice, but what we realized once we arrived is that her her home is, at best, a hostel with little to few amenities. Based on messaging with the owner, we got the impression that we would have a standard level of privacy like we have at all the other airbnbs we stayed at. If you’re looking for your typical Airbnb experience, pass on this place, because it’s just not like any other experience I’ve had on the site. Natalia is a shrewd business woman who bought a very large home (probably for cheap) in an up and coming, diverse neighborhood, and she rents out all the rooms in it (4 bedrooms each that can take up to 2 people) and all guests share ONE BATHROOM. That’s up to 8 people sharing a bathroom. And it doesn’t stop there. In addition to running into other guests constantly (some of whom asked us to wash their dishes...yup, that actually happened), there is a showering schedule on a white board outside the bathroom. We never used it because in addition to not providing privacy, Natalia also didn’t so much as provide a dry erase pen for it, so we basically hoped and prayed throughout the 3 days we were there that we wouldn’t need to take a poop when someone was taking a long shower. In addition to no peace of mind about sharing a bathroom with 8 people, hospitality was severly lacking. We had reserved a room with a regular bed and a couch that converts into a bed. My friend and I are not a couple, which I had told the owner, but when we arrived, we discovered that there were no sheets for the couch bed and so for the first night, my friend slept on a dirty lowest grade IKEA (Solsta -- google it, you’ll have a good laugh) couch with pillows and cushions that had no sheets on them. This couch is basically a camping pad on the floor, so my friend and I now joke about the time we paid $100 a night for him to camp out on someone’s floor in Boston. Ridiculous. Also, unsanitary. I had to text the owner to request bed sheets (remember, my friend slept on a camping pad on the floor) and extra towels and we only got them after I called airbnb and put in an official complaint on her place. There’s nothing wrong with running a hostel, but owners need to accurately advertise it as such and charge $40 a night. At $100 a night, we got ripped off. That’s just bad business. You know when you go into IKEA and whether you’re in the mug section or the rug section or bedding, how there’s the cheapest option? Every single item, from bed sheets to the trash can are LITERALLY the cheapest items at IKEA. I know because I’ve seen all of them in...