This is going to be a long one.
The door would not open at the front.... we have to finagle the key so many times til I had to call back her daughter and have someone come and help us. Once trying to get into her apartment that door ALSO gave us a hard time to open. She said “move the knob and move the key pull out the key...”. That alone is a safety issue. In order to host an airbnb apt there shouldn’t be any issues regarding entering the door. She should of also mentioned it was a project unit. Upon arrival again I couldn’t get into the apartment took me ten-fifteen minutes to just get inside. Mind you it was 10:00PM. The parking garage was two-three blocks down the apartment.. it was not a nice neighborhood. And did not feel remotely safe. I did not feel safe enough to walk up three blocks with my belongings especially knowing the door was giving us issues. Once I finally got inside her apartment, I went inside the bathroom and there were cockaroaches crawling down the wall. That was my third red flag. Fourth, her bathroom had a dirty mop bucket full with water and the dirty mop. Unacceptable. Walking into her living room, it did not look as neat as the pictures she posted. Seems as if she was just there and opened the bed quick. That was the fifth red flag. The apartment was crowded again stuff everywhere nothing like the pictures. Neither me nor my guest felt comfortable in the apartment. We tried going back into the apartment but couldn’t. I called her daughter (the # she provided) for her to help us open the door... she said she couldn’t because she was on bed rest. What red flag are we in now sixth?! This is an unacceptable occurrence. I’ve been on the phone with airbnb since Friday night where we did not have a place to stay due to it being so late we could not find a hotel nor airbnb. Again, this is not right. I’ve done airbnb a lot and I’ve never experienced something like this. Book as you please. But never again.