**SEWAGE LEAKING FROM TOILET** Do Not Stay!
We had a few issues with the listing. At first it appeared to be someone renting out their place which is always great to find, but unfortunately it was run tightly by a management company. We asked for some wiggle room with checkin and were told everything has an upcharge. Not really a great start but it's ok. We were in Austin for my little brothers wedding and just needed the place for the night. We spent 7 or 8 hours at the apartment total. In that time we discovered an unpleasent smell in the apartment (we opened all the windows to let it airout), dirty linings with dog hair and actual granuals of dirty in them, broken counter edges that were a bit too sharp to make one comfortable (glad my kids were at my in-laws), and worst of all the toilet was unsealed at the base and wiggled around with you sat on it. There was an obviously leak of sewage around the base and back of the toilet that was disgusting and quite disturbing. Now I am not saying it looked like Amber Hurd had stayed there before we did, just that there was discolored water and obvious watermarks where it has leaked previously as well as what seemed to be a very poor attempt to fix the toilet using caulk.
So we reached out to the host a day or two after our stay to complain about the issues and asked for a modest partial refund for the issues. They were not please and said we should have let us know earlier so they could have fixed it. I let them know I was there one night and circumstances were such that I was not able to contact them while in the apartment. They let me know in no uncertain terms that they were unwilling to give me a refund. I let them know that I would be leaving this review. I also don't think it's fair to future customers to have to stay in that kind of filth so I am working with Airbnb and with the City of Austin to make sure the issue with the toilet is addressed at the very least.