This place is unique, as described in the listing. You either like this style or not. The apartment is stuffed with vintage things as you can see in the images, that creates a certain atmosphere you might want to have when going to Providence, but it also means that it smells like a flea market and that it's hard to find a place for your own things.
We were disappointed about the lack of cleanliness. Having a place with that age doesn't mean to find used spoons in the drawer or molded glasses. Also disappointing was the fact that we had to extra pay for using the washing maschine and the dryer. That was not explained in the listing. We had been in the States for two weeks and stayed for 5 nights in this apartment, so we chose wisely a place with these amenities to feel well. Instead of the old machines in the basement we preferred to go to a professional laundry service. But that was annoying anyway.
We didn't have any problems with the neighbourhood as other guests described. It's just different cultures, I don't see the problem. Very good: The AC works really well (we even managed 35°C and high humidity with this strong but quiet AC) and we were surprised to find such modern sanitaries in this old house.
That was our 10th stay in an AirBnB (the fourth in the States) and we never had such a unfriendly host. Was it that we had questions? Was it that we asked for an umbrella for the advertised deck and as seen on the pictures? We didn't get one and were disappointed, for the deck was one of the reasons we booked this place. You can't stay on that deck with no protection. Only if you are already sunburned as hell or don't care about your skin. As we complained, Chip immediatly suggested that we should cancel the booking - wow, that escalated quickly. Never had such an experience. Sure it's no problem for him with his strong canceling rules. We would have had to pay for the whole time without being there. No thanks. At this point we got the feeling to be not welcome anymore and we met a, one can say hostile host.
We don't know what other guests did better, maybe they worshipped Chip and his AirBnBusiness more then we did.