The positive: This space itself was actually pretty good for the price, and we liked having two separate bedrooms and two bathrooms. The kitchen and the fridge were great for stocking up and pregaming for the weekend. It’s absolutely possible to walk to Fremont, although we just ended up taking ubers to save time and I would not recommend walking in that neighborhood at night.
The not-so-positive: when we arrived, we immediately had trouble with the front door lock keypad. Sometimes it would let us in and sometimes it wouldn’t, even though we put in the correct code each. We had several instances of having to mess with the door lock for 15-20 minutes or more before it let us in. I let Rosa know about this several times, the first time she told me “the lock is working perfectly” and the next time she sent her son over and he told us to move the handle up instead of down to open the door. Sometimes this worked and sometimes it didn’t. Finally, on a Saturday night when we were coming back in the middle of the night, the door simply would not let us in and since it was the middle of the night our messages were not being responded to right away. Normally I would be a bit more patient but we were two women locked out of our Airbnb in a sketchy neighborhood in the middle of the night. I called the emergency Airbnb number and they told us that if Rosa did not respond within the half hour that they would put us up in a hotel (which would have been great but all of our belongings were in the Airbnb, not to mention we were completely exhausted from being at a festival in the heat all day). Luckily she responded and sent out a maintenance person to fix the lock and he told us that the battery inside the lock was dead and that he would come by the next day to fix it. He gave us a physical key so we could come and go but I still had to wait around the next day for him to come and replace the battery. To his credit he did come and did it quickly but it was still extra stress that I didn’t need on my vacation.
The second issue was the WiFi. It didn’t work initially when we got in, we messed around with the modem a bit and finally got that working, but when that did we got a Cox internet page that would indicate the bill hadn’t been paid. We told Rosa about this and she claimed that there was maintenance going on in the neighborhood, but I don’t know what maintenance would be going on on a Friday night. The WiFi was working the next day.
The AC was an issue too but luckily we were able to get it down to 75 (it was 79 when we came in).
It’s a shame because this could really be a nice place but it was stressful having to deal with these easily fixable issues on my vacation.