Overall, the stay was fine. We enjoyed it enough, but for the price it's set at I probably wouldn't book again. The pictures made it look a bit nicer than it actually was, the complex is an older one and not as updated as you would expect for the price point. It is located in a really awesome spot, walking distance to many cute shops, restaurants, grocery stores, and across the street from food trucks. The beds were very comfortable, and the kitchen had plenty of pots, pans, dishes, etc (though no spices).
The negatives-
We couldn't ever get the wifi to work. I was able to get some spotty connection on my phone, but had to use my date Hotspot on my laptop for the whole month (the host was responsive when I reached out, but only offered the help of turning it on and off again, which didn't fix the problem).
You cannot get any mail or packages delivered. I had an expensive package sent, and it was put in the locked mailbox. When I reached out to the host and explained the situation they simply told me there was nothing they could do. I insisted that they call the property manager, but they said unfortunately my package was just a lost cause and I should get a PO box. Pretty disappointing.
The pool was closed due to covid, which is understandable but was a main deciding factor in booking this stay and wasn't communicated to us until after we had paid.
The laundry machines are not in the unit. They're a shared resource for the whole complex, very old, and coin operated (which sucks in the midst of a coin shortage. We had a hard time finding quarters to use the machines, and when we did they came out of the washer covered in white fuzz).
This likely is just a quirk of austin that I'm not used to as a west coastie- but there are huuuuge coackroaches here. A local said they are likely water bugs, attracted by stagnant water and hard to keep out of areas they want to get into. We kept all food sealed, frequently took out the trash, and didn't ever leave dishes in the sink. Despite all of this we had five or six different encounters with the nasty coackroach water bug things. Im talking 2 to 3 inches big. Huge. They would crawl onto the ceiling and then drop down, once I had one fall from the ceiling onto my bare stomach. So gross... im not sure if theres anything the host could have done to prevent this but definitely something to be aware of.
Finally the water in the apartment complex was shut off twice. No problem at all, this is to be expected in an apartment complex. However we were only given a heads up one of the two times, and only got lucky that we had showered and made our food before this happened.
The host was fairly quick to respond about issues but didn't really go above and beyond just responding to help with any of the issues.
Great location and pretty clean, stocked, spacious place. But not an ideal set up by any means.