I am a travel nurse traveling NJ for 3 months, initially booked this place for 90 days, however 24hrs after the booking I realize host has a lot written rules behind the listing, I called immediately trying to cancel but host refused. After I arrived the establishment, I was not able to find parking off street as host mentioned, which caused tremendous stress in my life given that I have never been to NJ before and don’t know anyone there. Imagine 10pm at night you can’t find parking. I called Airbnb a few times however they said it’s between host and I, so they can’t offer refund, I was so stressed out so I booked another hotel for a week so I don’t have to deal with all the stuff all at once. At the same time, I changed the my reservation to minimum, which was 30 days.
Pro: not much for what you are paying for, everything is functional in the room.
Cons: 1, this is not maplewood, so this is not really a nice neighborhood per se. you get the idea.
2, parking is not possible if you arrive after 5pm, you can TRY to talk to host park behind her family but you are at risk getting waken up by someone in middle of the night or in the morning, because host daughter was literally banging on my door at midnight telling me to move without even telling me who she is or sorry to disturb, that’s some extra rude behavior I haven’t seen on the earth for a while.
3, host entire family lives on ground level, there were often tension in the house, like you will hear fights between two person, yelling at each other in the middle of the night, initially the host was telling me only her and her brother lives in which was not true at all.
4, hot water doesn’t last long, I am a reasonable person, and I don’t take long showers but the hot water was literally out in about 10 mins.
5, host family smokes marijuana in the house and you can smell from upstairs, it stinks.
6, kitchen shared between tenants is not that clean, trash is always full, I have to push that trash every time when I try to put stuff in.
7, laundry is a joke, you get one day of the week to do your laundry, you are basically telling nurses to leave covid scrubs around or wear them the second day. Either someone was doing laundry on my day or I was doing laundry on other peoples day, with like 10 people sharing one set of laundry machine, you’d better off use laundry mat.
8, did I mention I was shut outside the front door for 30 mins in cold winter night with no phone, only bathrobe on and no wallet? I was trying to help someone move the car spot (back to parking issue) however the front door swing shut, I was banging on the front door and honking my horn for good 30 mins before host open the door, she simply said “I can’t hear it from the back”