Aimee is a great host, and the apartment is in a great location, great private space. However, a few things were amiss upon our arrival and during our stay, some of which the owner had no control over.
Firstly, it smelled like cigarette smoke in the shared living space. It smelled like it may have come from one of the other air BNB guest's room, and we saw cigarette ash on the bathroom floor. We notified Aimee immediately, but I'm not sure what the consequence of that was. I don't blame Aimee for that, but just thought I'd share.
The other thing is that the room itself did have a funny smell, (a friend who's a New York native said it smelled like an old moldy apartment). The bathroom smelled like an old, wet rag, but upon closer inspection, nothing seemed out of order or dirty. The bathroom and room itself were squeaky clean as far as I could tell, and we got used to the smell quickly, but it was a bit off putting upon our initial entrance.
The location itself is great, but within the apartment complex lives older Chinese gentlemen who like to get drunk and play mahjong. What they do is their own business, but one evening as we returned to the building, one of the drunk Chinese men was just incoherently hanging around the narrow single door to the building, blocking our entrance. After saying "excuse me" a few times, growing louder each time, he moved aside and opened the door for us. Again, for me as a guy, I was fine with this. It's whatever, just city shenanigans, but I can imagine this particular encounter being off-putting if you're a woman traveling by yourself and not used to dealing with drunk strangers.
Anyway, I don't want any of this to reflect negatively on Aimee since a fair amount of my criticism is out of her control, but I just thought it was worth mentioning. Overall, I had a great time at this air BNB and have no regrets staying here.