If you value your health, dont stay here.
Let me start off with from my interactions with Dan, he is a nice person & we had pleasant conversations. He was respectful of my space, showed me around & answered any questions I had. He made the check-in / out very easy as well.
Now I understand there is some level of dirt in any given house. And by all means, I am not the most clean person & do not demand that people go above & beyond on keeping their home space immaculate but this place was ghastly. I unfortunately had to stay here for most of my NY trip b/c the state regulated self-quarantine after flying from CA. After I received my negative results, I started looking for another place to stay.
When I arrived, the kitchen, bathroom & my bedroom was filthy & had the worst acrid body odor mixed with old oil and god knows what else. This scent is the worst I've ever experienced. It was everywhere, my room, the living room, my bed & sheets especially the bathroom where you get sucker punched by it every time. It had no limits. The scent permeated all of my clothes & left me feeling like I was covered in it every morning I woke up.
The first night there, I went out and bought fabreeze and attempted to rid the room, if even temporarily, of the scent I was smelling. It never worked. My body would pick up all of the dirt & dust as I was stretching on the bedroom floor, giving more proof he did not properly clean or even attempt to sweep the floor. I even found a toe nail once, and it’s not mine b/c mine were painted.
The kitchen plus it's utensils / plateware, stovetop, sink & other appliances are covered in grime & dirt as well. I tried to find a clean bowl and cup to use during my stay however every thing I pulled down from the shelf still had come kind of food remnants on it. The on/off sink handles felt like it had years of grime on it, leaving my hands feeling sticky and greasy at the same time. I even bought a sponge & kept it separate from the one already provided b/c the original one looked like it was past due by a few months.
The bathroom was a whole other universe. There were pubes on the toilet seat almost every day. If you looked the toilet bowl & back by the flusher, it was guaranteed. Now it’s natural for some bathrooms to accumulate mold and this had maybe a little bit over the normal amount. However, I was legit scared to take a shower b/c I did not want to catch any kind of foot fungus. I bought flip flops in the middle of November, in New York b/c I was scared to take a shower barefoot.
I was more scared of catching some kind of sickness from this place than getting COVID. Thankfully, AirBnB was really supportive & helped me through this process.