I’ll try to keep this a short as possible but hit all of the points.
The pictures that are listed on the Airbnb site are old, they DO NOT represent how the space looks in real-time. The home looks lived-in, it doesn’t look like a place you would have as a business/Airbnb. The bookshelf with the assortment of books is fine, but the closet in the living room is FULL of Nates personal stuff such as golfclubs, and other items, I opened the closet thinking we could store our suitcases in there, wrong!
The home was dirty when we arrived, it appeared to not have been cleaned from the last renters. The linen on the beds were dirty, i.e., hair and stains. The kitchen was dirty, the refrigerator and oven alike. I took everything out of the refrigerator and cleaned it. The oven and microwave was dirty, I cleaned the microwave but decided not to clean the oven as we were not going to use it, and then swept and moped the floor with a hot towel since there was no mop in the Airbnb. Additionally, since the kitchen was dirty, I didn’t trust the bathroom being clean, so I cleaned that, mind you all of this was being done at midnight the night we arrived.
The bathroom baseboard is currently coming away from the wall, not to mention we saw a big A$$ water bug. Nates place is a brownstone with 3 levels, so he rents to multiple people at the same time on the different floors, we were on the bottom. The home is old with wooden floors, Nate ended up renting to a heavy-footed man who was right above us and this man STOMPED all frigging night, not to mention a baby ran around all night as well, Nate stated he wasn’t aware that a baby was there. We are traveling nurses, that rented the place while on contract there, so sleep is important as we get up to start our day at 430-445 am, the stomping was still going on at 2am. Lastly, the washer and dryer… The amenities listed on the Airbnb states that there’s a washer and dryer on site, yes, it is, but did it work??? NO! We informed Nate that the washer didn’t work, he attempted to have it serviced, they couldn’t fix it so he ended up purchasing a used one, however, due to the snowstorm, it pushed the delivery out. Finally, got the washer, but THEN… found out that the dryer didn’t work properly, we literally had to re-start the dryer 15-20 times to dry one load, because an error code would show on the screen which would stop the dryer. Parking… amenities show “on site parking”… NOT true, when we mentioned this to Nate, he said “oh that means parking on the street” no technically that’s false advertisement. There were times we had to park two blocks away because of course in front of the homes, it’s first come first serve, most brownstones do not have driveways and this property does but it’s only for Nate’s car.
There was an issue with the heat so there were ALOT of cold days/nights. We had heated blankets and a heater. We purchased cleaning supplies, a toaster, coffee maker, etc because the ones there were completely dirty and were molded with old toast/food. The constant smell of gas due to the tanks being on our level.
Nate would constantly tell us that he would take care of things but out of the 4 weeks we had already pre-paid for, the washer was changed out, and he purchased water for us. Some people may think the request were unnecessary but we weren’t there for a vacation. We were there to work and between the partying from the other guests above our bedroom, to the heavy foot man, kid, dog, friend - above the living room, we had a lot of sleepless nights to where we started wearing our headphones to bed.
If you’re there to party and don’t care about the things listed, this is the place for you!