The day before we arrived, the “host” told us that there would be workers coming through our apartment during our stay to do construction on the back yard, and that she was not sure how long it would take but probably about three days. She told us we could stay somewhere else or she could give us a discount for those days. I thought okay cool, only three days, as a normal human, I cut her a slack and let her workers come through our unit, leaving all traces of footprints that I had to clean after work. That’s no biggy so far. However, Her way of communication was not forthright at all. The construction is not minor; it’s a major construction that I think might require a permit from the government, including digging holes in the concrete ground, putting up a tanky metal platform over the roof of the adjacent room to our bedroom and a giant ladder running from her kitchen upstairs to the backyard, putting up walls in the adjacent room, sanding, and painting, etc. Those workers ended up working at the property for about 15 days during our 34 nights stay, tramping through our apartment, drilling incredibly loudly in the back yard and the adjacent room, and sending dust, grit, and noxious fumes into our bedroom and the rest of the apartment as my husband worked from home. Christina was extremely dismissive of our complaints. The last few days, she asked again that we could move somewhere else when I complained and tried to get her compensate our damage due to not able to use half the unit for those days. My dog couldn’t be crated, my wfh husband got disturbed enormously. Nope! Unless I bring her to the court, she just won’t.
She also let her friends who have two kiddos stay for a week during the holiday seasons. I don’t even wanna start to complain how disruptive and disturbing that was. Just imagine a one year old who needs play balls right above you, with no carpet on their floor.
The posting had mentioned that the furniture had been changed from the pictures. Truth is, no single tangible item in her pictures was in that unit when we stayed. The one sentence disclaimer made by the “host” concealed the information that the new furniture included a table whose top had broken and disconnected from the legs, a desk that was tilting and falling apart at the joints, and an absolutely filthy couch that had clear just been dumpster dived out of a back alley somewhere.
The drawers in the kitchen were visibly dirty, and only the absolute bare minimum of necessities were present. Upon my asking, she did order an iron casting pan (without rubber handler, watch out!), three cheap sponges, two pack of mop cloths, metal measuring cups, a spatula, a set of plastic cutting boards for our unit.
The bedroom windows and door are not sealed properly, in December and January in NY, enjoy the wind blowing on you face while sleeping in that bedroom.
The square footage, take a grind of salt. The backyard is full of trash. We have a dog and thought a backyard would be nice to run, nope.
Would not recommend. If you have to, i have great sympathy for you. I have stayed in many places in Europe, Australia, US (including NY), this is the one I absolutely don’t recommend.
I don’t mind people making passive income, but in this way as a young person, it’s a wow!