While the bathroom pictured is the bathroom in the unit, all of the pictures in the listing are clearly several years old, as the grout in the entire shower is covered in pink and dark brown mold, which also has spread to several of the shampoo and bodywash bottles that take up the entire windowsill in the shower. The mold has also spread to the bathroom window itself, and looks disgusting (although I guess it does provide added privacy?). The bathroom floor grout was clearly originally white, as you could tell around the edges of the bathroom by the walls, but was currently black with dirt. There were often dirty wet boot prints on the bathroom floor. The bathroom sink was frequently soaking wet and covered in hair, and I had to wipe someone else's urine and hair off of the toilet seat before using it every time I used the bathroom. I killed at least one cockroach every time I used the kitchen, which looked wiped down but was inexplicably slightly greasy wherever you touched, including the cabinets, sink faucet, fridge door, and clean dishes rack. I ended up cleaning a bowl and fork and keeping those in my room for daily use in order to avoid having to re-clean dishes every time I wanted to eat. The oven was unusable- even with a window open, simply preheating it with nothing in it produced so much smoke that the smoke alarm went off. There is VERY minimal fridge space.
The bedroom available is NOT the bedroom pictured; there is a tenant who now lives in the pictured bedroom. The bedroom I was in was a good size with a window, closet, and a queen bunk bed, but the radiator made the room sweltering because it was controlled by the building, not the apartment. Even after turning the radiator off from the bottom, the only way to make the room bearable was to wear shorts and a tank top and keep the window open 24/7, even during the blizzard. There was also an old lipstick print from a previous occupant on the wall of my bedroom.
There were also definitely rats (or huge, loud mice) living in the walls and the ceiling, which were active and loud enough to wake me up at night despite being a heavy sleeper. The rodent problem persisted the entire month+a week that I lived here. The walls are also very, very thin, so expect to hear every conversation the hosts have, regardless of where they are in the apartment. The floors were perpetually grimy- if you stay here, I *highly* recommend wearing house shoes to walk around the house.
I was never given the key to my bedroom door, which I was supposed to receive three days after move in (there was a complication with the previous resident accidentally taking it, which wasn't the host's fault). Not having the key ended up not being a big deal for me because I was working from home the entire time I was here. Also, double check your keys when you first receive them; initially, I was mistakenly given a key that would not have worked on the front door, but I was able to get the right one without getting locked out because I tested it on my way outside.
However, after almost an entire year of being very safe and careful (I have lost a family member to the pandemic and do not want to be added to that list), I caught covid while living here, despite not having left the apartment at ALL during the time period I could have been exposed based on the onset of my symptoms.
The upstairs neighbors are children and often loud and running, which did not bother me because they're kids and I'm sure they're feeling cooped up, but might be a noise issue for some people. To be honest, I preferred when the kids were running around, because they seemed to keep the rats quiet (or at least drowned out the rat noises).
The location is also several blocks away from where it is listed on airbnb; the listed location is on S. 6th street, but the actual location is on S. 9th. The extra few blocks were not a problem at all for me, and it was a perfectly safe area, but if you have limited mobility please be aware.
Overall, if you're just looking for a place to crash during a short weekend and you're not planning on being in the apartment much and don't plan to cook/use the kitchen at all, and are a very, very heavy sleeper, this place was in a good, safe location. But if you actually have to live in the apartment for any amount of time, I would not recommend staying here. I will definitely not be staying here again.