On a positive note the place is right next to the G and L train, so getting to and from Manhattan is great. The place was also tidy and clean when I arrived.
On the other hand, a lot went wrong. First of all the fridge and freezer are broken. They stop working at least once a day where everything defrosts and then freezes again, which made my food go bad very quickly. I tested it with a coin experiment to make sure. Not only this, but upon arrival there was no toilet paper, hand soap, dish soap, or paper towels, so I had to purchase those the first night.
When I arrived she let me know that the lock was broken. It was broken almost 2/4 weeks of my stay while I waited for the super intendant to fix it. Which he couldn’t and made it completely break. This being said, being alone as a young woman and having different men come to fix/ take a look at the lock was not fun. One of the locksmith actually let me know that the entire time someone could have just switched it open with their finger. I had to miss out on plans for the night and the next day, and I when I became annoyed with the host she basically said “that’s not my fault”, but really she should have called a locksmith before I even showed up to check-in.
The first night I showed up, she mentioned that I needed to pick up laundry from the laundry mat and she already paid for it. I go to pick it up, and the man at the counter (who didn’t speak much English) says it isn’t paid for yet, which I then tell him it is because the host said so (and I didn’t think she would say it was paid if it wasn’t). Turns out after talking to his daughter, it was not. The host replied “I didn’t know you’d go already”. I tell her it closes soon and wait hours for a response, only for me to end up purchasing it because I needed towels to shower. Without a warning, she tells me she sent them money. This led me to panic, because now I just purchased something that I didn’t have to, embarrassed myself, and stressed out the man behind the counter. The host did pay me back for the items I purchased, but I shouldn’t have had to do that in the first place.
Also, just so you know there is no microwave or TV, and it is 5 flights up which none of that was advised. There is only one window unit for AC which is in the living room and the bedroom gets extremely hot at night, so much that I slept on the couch 1/2 of the time.