Real talk: First, I would like to touch on the positive elements of the stay before giving an honest critique that I wish we would have had. Alex is the founder of Abode which is a company in Los Angeles. Her and the staff were good at responding to us quickly, but if you want someone in the same city as you be aware of that. There is additional check in procedure on a third party platform. Anyway, it wasn't that bad and they took care of us when needed. We appreciated their response, honesty, and fairness to work with us. My wife really liked the bed and the low platform. I really liked that the window in front you can load in directly from the car. It made it easy to get our stuff in and out. We had issues with the site, but they were very fair to refund us the cleaning fee because of it. I appreciate that. I can say that Alex and staff were good/pretty decent. If they had not been this review would have been rated terrible and reported to AirBnB.
Let me share with you the honest, real life critiques that may or may not apply to your stay to let you decide if you want to stay there. I'm not wanting to be mean, but I just have to be real on this one.
-The neighborhood is honestly rough, the first night we were there it sounded like something about like a twenty two caliber pistol was fired rapidly three times across the main street and the windows to the bedrooms face that way.
-Our bed linens/comforter had brown stains on them - I uploaded the pictures to AirBnB. The floors were also sticky and dirty as demonstrable with a wet paper towel test.
-There was tile issues in the bathroom and paint peeling off of the tub. My wife didn't appreciate being slightly on display in the bathroom, but another apartment actually had a street facing window and you could see women showering. The glass is mildly frosted.
-Spiderwebs, cobwebs in blinds and windows.
- I don't know how much of the dirt issues you will experience as they were having cleaning staff issues to be fair.
-It didn't stand up to hypoallergenic standards from our point of view and it was relayed to us that it was. There was no soap or sponge in the kitchen to do dishes.
-Closest Sprouts or grocery type store of that type is 20 minutes away west of Nashville, but that's more of an issue with Nashville and less the apartment. Just get food on your way in because it's a food desert. There is a Kroger that doesn't have much produce, but I am told there is a farmers market nearby. We didn't visit that one, and the main one downtown is non-organic and pathetic during the week. Again, more of a location issue in the city of Nashville not the apartment.
-You have the potential to be listening to trap music on blast well into the night.
-No stainless steel pots, only the standard AirBnB shopping mall non sticks.
-Really weird parking situation in back, but it's not the worst. If you enter the street address number into the front gate it will let you into unload... just don't stay there because you'll run the risk of a tow. Like I said in this apartment you can pull in and pass stuff through the window which is sweet.
That's the good with the bad for us. Perhaps other people experienced it in finer condition with better cleaning staff and less needs than us for our stay. We stayed there as a family and felt as though we were staying in a display model apartment as my wife says. I have to say that Abode definitely owned up to the major staff problems and did refund us all of the cleaning fee which was MUCH appreciated as I don't think the place was even cleaned before we got there.
If those critiques don't apply to your situation and they get everything fixed then it wouldn't be a bad place to stay if you know that's the area you want to be in. We didn't like being there for these reasons, and I think all of the reviews about it being stylish and free of problems are probably not being authentic. Again, we are traveling as a family though so we need more than a place to crash after a day of partying.
I wouldn't dissuade you from booking here by any means, it just looks amazing in the pictures and the check in process is so deep you really expect it to be nice when you show up for the price. Make your own decision, your mileage may vary, but I'd be doing a disservice to any member of the airbnb community if I acted like everything was peachy here just because the cleaning fee was refunded. It should be without even asking as the place was dirty, although we appreciate it nonetheless.