TLDR: Pay $$ to make your own bed with torn sheets. Don't leave the door open if you don't want the host's cat to enter your room.
We entered to see the bed was unmade and all the sheets were on the bed. We checked with Ashley who said we are supposed to make our own beds (which is fine, but it would have been nice to know in advance).
As we set about making the bed, we noticed the sheets and pillow cases were torn/had holes in them and also had some yellow stains on them (pics enclosed). We understand this is a homestay and not a hotel - but clean sheets are a basic requirement! We informed Ashley about this who did not apologize and said he knows about this and can drop by with other sheets later.
Our party included people who are allergic to cats / had to avoid cats. We had previously canceled another AirBnB on this same trip as soon as we found out they had cats on premises. Imagine our surprise when we found a cat on the premises and it even ran into our room when we opened the main door! Once again Ashley was unapologetic when we brought this up, and we decided enough was enough and vacated the premises early.
Ashley was very rude throughout our communication and did not make us feel welcome at all. We have stayed in several AirBnBs and never met such a host. He kept insisting his place was not a hotel but a homestay and we are friends on his premises. I don't know who treats their friends like this, let alone paying guests.
When we informed Ashley of our decision to leave, he insinuated that we couldn't be that allergic to cats because he had seen one of us had to handle the cat to get it to leave the room. He proceeded to suggest that we "pay $500 a night at the Wynn". Apparently he has been doing this for a long time and "normal people (didn't) complain" like we did.
The listing and host have multiple poor reviews already, so Ashley, who has been doing this a long time, clearly does not care what guests think of his service, or lack thereof. So I don't have a lot of hope that anything on this review will cause an improvement, but in writing this review, I'm doing my due diligence. We made every effort to accommodate everything Ashley threw at us during our vacation and followed his house rules by cleaning up after ourselves as he had required, after we decided to leave early. I've been using AirBnB for a long while and this was an experience I wouldn't care to repeat.