**Renter beware**
Positive:
Host is great at communication check in and questions. She is always friendly and kind. The locate of the apt. is great. Right off the park and near transit.
Negative:
The last morning of our stay we saw two cockroaches, that was extremely jarring. I was able to kill one.
When you walk into the apartment there is a notable smell of urine. The entire apartment smell like urine all the time. The pee pad at the top of the stairs can be an unpleasant sight and smell. There are also pee pads in the hosts bedrooms on the first floor. We tried using room freshener but it was not enough to clear the smell. I also noticed the pee pad does not get changed daily. We changed it because it was 2 days old with urine.
The toilet downstairs was broken when we arrived. She stated she would call the super. That evening when the toilet still wasn't fixed, I fixed it myself. I was looking to clean our bathroom, downstairs, and I was not able to locate any cleaning products in the apartment, not a single disinfecting wipe or toilet cleaner. We have also had to purchase hand soap for the bathroom.
The area rugs, both upstairs, downstairs and bathroom, are covered in dog hair. There is a ball of dog hair right next to the bed downstair, that cannot missed from a distance. There is no vacuum cleaner, I could locate, or I would have run it.
The host requests that we rate the apartment as "clean" in our review because other guests have been commenting on the cleanliness of the apt in their recent reviews. That made me uncomfortable. The apartment is not cluttered and things are in place, however I would not feel comfortable stating that it is clean.
I provided the same feedback to the host, prior to posting my review, and she did not respond.