This was the worst airbnb experience I’ve ever had. The location is really nice right by the L train, and it’s fairly cheap for the area, but even that doesn’t make staying here worth it. When we walked in to the Airbnb, we walked down a set of steep basement stairs into a tiny hallway. There were sheets hanging down telling you to “keep out” of either the tiny area to the left or right of the door to the apartment. I’ll get to this later. So we walk inside, and the place is dirty. Not just your every day dirty (which it was, also) but filthy. There was literally old, full Chinese takeout food containers and apple juice on the counter. Imagine the smell. It was gross. It also became immediately apparent that the heat was on upstairs, and there was little to no air flow down there in the basement. I was told to open a window. There are two tiny prison windows in this whole basement. They’re at eye line with the street. They are not large enough for a person to crawl out of by any stretch of the imagination, and they are up really high, even though the ceilings were extremely low. I had to stand on the toilet to reach the tiny window in the bathroom and on the kitchen counter to reach the one in the kitchen. After getting closer than comfort to the windows, it became evident that I could get out of here in case of emergency. I then looked for any semblance of fire safety in the apartment. I looked in every corner of the basement. Behind things. In every cabinet and drawer. No smoke detector in the apartment. No fire extinguisher. No exit plan posted or located anywhere in the apartment. At that point, the claustrophobia and survival instincts really took hold. I had to go. On top of all of this, the mattress was hard as rocks, and the owners won’t work with you if you need to leave due to above issues. It took multiple messages hours to be responded to, and when I finally told the host we had to leave, she didn’t respond to me until I sent a follow up message the next day. This is the same person who stated that I should have communicated. She also stated that there was fire safety, just not anything we could find or that was marked in any way? Perhaps the fire safety was located behind the creepy “keep out” curtains? Or in their locked apartment with the constantly barking dog? Save yourself the time and money. Stay elsewhere.