Unfortunately my friend and I did not have a great stay at Damani's place. Upon arrival we found that the place wasn't as clean as we had hoped, with dust in the corners and on side tables in the bedroom. But we thought, no worries, not a big deal and had a look at the house booklet our host had left. Herein we found a task list of things we were requested to do upon departure: Empty trash, clean out refrigerator, load and run the dishwasher, clean used pots, and load the washing machine with used towels (host does not supply detergent). Sure, it would be nice to do those things out of courtesy, but to mandate them to paying guests? Not alright. If we are cleaning up so thoroughly then why are we paying a cleaning fee? We also found disturbing another rule within the booklet that expressly demanded we not use the face towels supplied to wash our faces. The host's reason for this is that he does not want makeup to "decorate the plush lily WHITE towels." He claims that he supplies the bathroom with makeup wipes but there were none to be found.
And finally on our last two nights in this home we heard an animal/s clawing and squeaking, seemingly coming from a vent inside the home next to the bathroom. We heard it claw at the vent and saw it push on the grate for hours those two nights. The day after our first night of experiencing this we contacted our host about it and sent him a video we had taken of its noisy scratching and clawing. Our host was unfortunately very passive aggressive in his demeanor, denying anything like that would happen at his house despite our video proof. However, he deigned to check in and look at the vent and around the house. He reported back saying he found nothing. He followed up again the following day and we again reported that we heard the animal at night. All our host said was "Ok. Strange." He never offered an apology for this inconvenience or any remedy to this household pest. It was very disappointing. All told, if he had just apologized and had been kind in his demeanor that would have really smoothed things over. Oh well. I would avoid this place at all costs.