Our stay at Jill's house in Nashville was our first experience with Airbnb. We spent four nights there with our family and had a great visit. As a first experience, there was good and bad.
The good: the part of the house in which we stayed was extremely well-decorated, furnished, and maintained. The amenities included high quality appliances, comfortable furnishings, and all the comforts of home. Jill provided everything needed to move right in (coffee, snacks, toiletries), important after arriving in an unknown neighborhood. Overall, the house was tasteful, comforting, and inviting, and Jill knew exactly how to prepare for and treat her guests.
The bad: Jill set the standards extremely high, and we knew it would be difficult for others to reach this level of attention and taste. And we found that to be true: on the same trip we stayed at a corporate-managed Airbnb offering in another city, and the experience was much different. Arriving in the evening, in the dark, trying to find a store to buy simple items like soap and coffee filters for the next morning made us think of Jill.
If you want to truly understand the Airbnb concept (home away from home), and experience simple, decent, caring treatment of one human towards others, spend a few nights at Jill's.