This is a hard review for me to do b/c I want to always give love when at all possible. However, the past 6 days felt like we were imposing on or had over stayed our welcome. My wife and I are from NYC and have lived there for over 12 years. This visit was for us to visit our friends, take class (I'm a Broadway performer). When we saw this apt on the site we were excited b/c it was in our old stomping grounds. On arrival Greg greeted us with more information than was needed. A huge plus for non visitors a little much for us as we lived in NYC for so long. For my wife and I the welcomeness stopped there from Greg and the awkwardness began.

In our initial emails we were led to believe the apartment would be ours, " We would most likely not be staying at the apartment the entire time you're here, so you would have the apartment to yourselves at least a few of the nights." This was the main reason we decided to move forward with this rental and turn down other options. We had the apt to ourselves only 1 night, which was the night we arrived. They were there the entire time. Always in the common areas, we felt uncomfortable and unwanted when we tried to use the area at the same time. Our room had a non working TV so we watched Netflix on our laptop. Towards the end of the stay, we heard one of them in the hall way talking about us watching our shows on our computer. For one thing, laptops don't get that loud. Another thing, b/c many NYC apts walls are so thin why did they think we wouldn't hear them talking about us? Scott was the only one to greet us in the morning - he was quite pleasant. After the 2nd night Greg was over us being there.

Would we stay here again.. no. Would I recommend this apt to someone else.. perhaps. I'd only recommend for someone staying less than 3 nights. It was very clear they both didn't want us there as long as we requested, were approved to stay, and paid for.

Negative, we had no where to hang our clothes for the 6 nights we were there. Positive, they allowed us to use their laundry detergent. Positive, they let us use the refrigerator. Negative, not feeling comfortable enough to use the common areas when they were around. Negative, not being spoken to unless we spoke to them first.

We were treated like bad roommates instead of guests. For a house that's fine, but in a NY apt it's not ideal. The whole idea of Air BnB is that it's better and more affordable than a hotel. Had we known we would be roommates we would have chosen somewhere else to stay. Or at the very least prepared ourselves to be roommates with another couple.