This place is in a great location off the Green Line, especially since we wanted to spend time in Allston. I picked it because of it's privacy, I appreciated the private entrance and not sharing a bathroom with anyone, but if I'm being completely honest it was not a stay I would ever do again.
I wanted to stay in a place owned by people living in the area and not some realtor company for a more unique experience and better communication but we ended up not hearing from them at all. Dispite messaging them a week in advance about our stay we never heard back.
The pictures for this place are definitely very outdated and it doesn't seen to have been kept up with at all. Alot of dust and dirt has accumulated in this place along a verity of mistery stains.
For a place with close to a 5 star review, that charges for cleaning services, it was very gross and uncomfortable for lack of better words. We didn't expect the most amazing experience due to it being a basement room in the Allston area but the dampness, smell of cat pee and finding someone elses hair all over the bed and in the bathroom made me not even want to shower here or unpack my things.
The place was definitely not cleaned before we arrived, the bed was made and we had clean towels but that's to be expected and I shouldn't have been so happy that the towels smelled good.
The entire place was filled with old furniture and junk that soemone wouldn't want in their own apartment so it seems like it was just put here to fill the space. Which only gave more for dust and dirt to acumulate on.
I've stayed in other basements using Air bnb over the years that were awesome for a similar price, so in the future i'll just have to book eariler to avoid even having this place as an option.