I have traveled to many countries in the world and always prefer to use Airbnb. I have never had a horrified experience with the host like this time!!!!!
When I spoke on the phone with the host he sounded very loud but I thought it was just a typical “New Yorker”. I later realized that it was him yelling at me the whole time. First he told me on the phone to ring the bell “on the left and on the left only and never ever go upstairs”. My thought was that never go up in the building unattended even if the door was open. To my surprise when I called him to let him know that I was in the front door, he came from the “basement” and started yelling at me that “I told you not to go up stairs, why don’t you listen?”. I then realized that the six steps we took to get to the big door that is his”upstairs”. He could just tell me politely that he lived in the basement so I would have waited for him at the basement’s door. The yelling didn’t stop there, he was yelling a whole time while showing us the house and making us feel really uncomfortable to live there. We had no choice that week because it was Pratt’s graduation and we needed to find somewhere close to the school for my son’s graduation. Everywhere was booked that week. I would highly NOT recommend this place to anybody. Aside from a bad manner from the host, the house also has a cat and the living room was really dark with cat’s fur everywhere. I do love cats and dogs but if I were to open my house for other people to live and charge money for it, I would definitely clean it up before I put it on the market. I do not wish this experience that I had with this host on anyone ever.