Although the house was clean on the surface, it was actually gross and poorly maintained in several areas. The biggest issue was that the entire house smelled like mildew. When I asked Tim about it he told me that the basement has been checked several times and it’s just “old house smell.” I live in a town that also has a lot of unfinished basements and I grew up in Nashville. I know the smell. It’s mildew.
Also the instruction sheet didn’t match the instructions on the AirBnB site. A particularly annoying “instruction” is that guests are required to deep clean the kitchen, take the trash out to the alley, and strips the beds of the linens. Oh, except for the duvets, which “the cleaning girls” will take care of. I’m not convinced they do actually wash them because the downstairs duvet reeked of someone else’s body odor. I actually went out to buy some detergent to wash it because it was so gross. There were also different bug wings in the bed. All of this and I had to pay a $160 cleaning fee? Truly, for what?
On top of all this, there were several broken lights and broken ceiling fans. The living room overhead lights didn’t work so there was a giant lamp in the corner. The problem with the giant lamp is that is made the thermostat go crazy because the light bulbs were so hot. While the downstairs was very cold, the upstairs isn’t fully air conditioned (it’s a window unit) so the room with the broken ceiling fan got quite hot. The couch and chairs had numerous large stairs and the dining table was constantly sticky. There was also an outlet that was popped out of the wall and a smoke detector that was detached from the ceiling. Oh, and the laminated signs above the toilets instructions those pesky ladies to not “flush girly things down the toilet.”
It’s a spacious house that has comfortable beds. It’s clearly used by large groups, which I completely understand. The location was excellent. But I won’t stay here again.