Michael was very nice, however this Airbnb was not what we had been hoping for.
Before check in, we told Michael we'd be there at a specific time in the late evening. We arrived in the late evening but 30 minutes earlier than expected, and the room wasn't ready for us yet. Even though the instructions said we'd get the key out of a lockbox, the lockbox was empty when we arrived which caused a moment of worry, but it turned out that Michael would let us in personally instead.
The room itself was clean-ish, but grimy. The paint on all the walls was scuffed and dirty (in the room and the rest of the apartment too). The only decorations in our room were a tiny painting high up on the wall and a dead plant. It was great to have an A/C unit we could control, because the central heating in the building in the winter would have otherwise made it stiflingly hot, too hot to sleep. The desk was good enough. The mattress had a distinct sag on one side, but was alright. There were ants in the room, and the paint was flaking in many spots.
The real problem was the common rooms were dirty and gross the whole time. There were never not a large pile of dirty dishes in the sink. I couldn't find any spoons for the longest time, until I realized that they lived in the sink at the bottom of the pile of dishes (there was not a drawer for them, they were only ever in the sink). There was only 1 bowl, often dirty. Over the course of a week, some of the dirty dishes changed, but some stayed there dirty the whole time. One pan on the stovetop was dirty the whole time (someone cooked mushrooms more than a week before). Other pots and pans lived in a pile on the stove. There were a few mugs, but no other glassware. I appreciated the electric kettle, but was only comfortable using it because it only heats water, so it couldn't get dirty.
The common room was pretty much unusable, because there was no seating, except for a single chair covered in someone else's stuff (loose, or in random bags). There was a huge pile of stuff that seems to be stored in the room.
All the windows were dirty, and the whole place feels dark. Of course, it didn't help that both bulbs in our overhead light in our room had burnt out before we got there (one side lamp still worked). Michael did replace the bulbs when we pointed it out.
Over the course of our week there, the toilet clogged, but the only toilet plunger had clearly been destroyed recently, and not replaced, so couldn't be unclogged. Michael did go out and purchase a new plunger right away after I let him know, so he was responsive but not proactive. The next day the toilet flushing mechanism broke, and Michael went out and replaced that too. There was no working lock (or even a working doorknob) on the bathroom door.
The location for this Airbnb is quite close to the subway and the corner of Prospect park.
Overall, Michael was super friendly and nice, and responsive when we pointed out things that were specifically broken, but not proactive at all at fixing broken things until we pointed them out. Between many things breaking, the overall dingy condition of the whole apartment (ants, chipping paint, dirty walls), and the disaster that the roommates left the kitchen in, I would not recommend staying here.