This Airbnb stay was very interesting. I stayed for 10 weeks over the summer. I noticed a couple of issues as soon as I got there but didn’t make a big deal about it (the lighting fixtures had changed from what’s pictured, the pots/pans had a lot of scratches and plastic spatulas were melted, I had to buy clips to raise the curtain in my room so I could feel the air come in from the window unit). A couple more weeks there I noticed that Angela, the host, was around a lot, often times doing her own personal laundry at the unit even though she didn’t stay there. I appreciated how clean she kept the place but it also felt like an intrusion of privacy seeing her there so much since she didn’t live there.
She maintains the place herself and sometimes it’s not always done well. The curtain rod in my room was hung up with nails instead of screws and fell down once, meaning I had to sleep without any privacy since my room faced the street till it was fixed. She replaced the front door and for a couple of days the front door didn’t lock because the old lock didn’t fit the door. I pointed out several roach sightings to her. CThe first time she came over and cleaned the kitchen. The second time, I suggested that an exterminator come out and she said that extermination wouldn’t come again till October.
I knew that I would be sharing a bathroom with a person but I wasn’t expecting two. After a month of living there, my previous flatmate left and someone new moved in with her boyfriend. Angela didn’t give me a heads up about this. I only figured out when I constantly saw them around the place cooking.
The place was affordable for the summer and I really enjoyed living in Bed Stuy, but this Airbnb experience wasn’t my favorite.