I’m not writing reviews usually, but I am writing this review because I am living in Cambridge/ Boston (now days it’s more on&off) and I know the apt/ houses condition in those cities.
Although the owner and two young guys whom working as a housekeepers are very nice and quiet, but the apartment condition is very disappointing.
As a heads up, this is a place that runs by a Turkish owner, and two work-study housekeeps. Hassan, and another Hassan. Very nice kids.
Based on a few years of experience living in Turkey with Turkish people, you can see how people and the society are well known by being legitimately neat and clean and to me, they are kinda OCD people, that I like it lol.
So, this was the reason to book this place, but sadly, it was only an unpleasant experience, and waste of money.
Everything is either damaged, leaking or fall apart.
I was at John’s for 8-days. (July.2nd through July.9th. 2022)
I am a civil Structural Engineer/ researcher, and by a quick and shallow inspection you could easily see that how tacky is the entire building.
Dark, dim and dingy, rotted spiral wood staircase that made lifting up and dragging my luggage up to the second floor very, very difficult.
Due to windowsill cracks and having rain on the night before my itinerary, the run off was in my room directly towards the mattress (no bed frame was available in the first couple of days, and then he bought the frames and assembled the bed frames when I was there). Although the run off was manageable, but it wasn’t a pleasant welcoming at first arriving.
Thanks to both Hassan(s), my room was clean and that made me to tolerate.
Camera is established between rooms and bathroom region.
So, for people with religious restrictions (like Jewish orthodox or even Muslim) that they have body reviling restriction it’s tough to manage.
Other floors guests we’re pretty laud. I lost loosing my sleep in the first night because people making noises till 02:45 A.M.
But the most difficult, wired and disappointing part is about the bathroom.
The bathtub was leaking. It was welded and patched many times !!! (Very weird to me), it was a rusted bathtub with black and green and orange mould in between tiles, corners and around the bathtub. Very disgusting.
The shower was broken and they fixed it by assembling the douche to an extra rod to only attaché those two segments together.
So, the douche doesn’t have the ability to move up and down. It was totally fixed in 60 degree in angle to the wall. And because the shower wasn’t be able to get moved to any direction the water was only splashing directly to the front wall.
Something that I’ve never seen it before.
So, instead of taking a normal shower, you could have taken an AIR Shower and I should find a way to level up to have a bit of water splashes to my body and let me to rinse off in a hot and humid days.
So, taking a daily shower was a literally time consuming.
The bathroom floor was always wet and humid, and run off was all over it.
I talked to the owner and mentioned all those issues, but sadly, his is ended up fixing issues at his properties.
Although he is a successful businessman (he has other AirBnB places and few other businesses), but he was totally reluctant to fix anything. He mentioned even if he could he would not have inclination to fix things because of bad experience with anarchy AirBnB guests. Guests who stole, broken or damaged his properties and gives him very hard times. And he’s right from one aspect. But we can’t stop planting flowers in the cities only because kids/ people are tend to pick them up.
So, based on our conversation and what I have gotten from the owner, this is a place that he only charge people without spending proper cleaning or fixing.
I asked for a small bucket and a mirror for my room since it was only one small, mirror in the bathroom and the bathroom was always preoccupied with 6-other guests (all gentleman), and he refused my request.
Although he knows that I was the only female there at that time, and the bathroom condition is awful, but he avoided to help and resolve the issue.
So, as a conclusion, it was a very unpleasant and disappointing experience, and I don’t recommend this place to people who values cleaning and nice place.