No one went to clean while the 12 day duration of my stay. Guests are to keep the place clean by picking up after themselves. If other guests don’t cooperate you’re screwed or you have to send host a msg to remind them of chores. When i got there, there were a few pairs of shoes at the entrance along with toys on the floor and the kitchen was dirty. I didn’t ask questions, I just cleaned everything before I used it and every couple of days after that. My bf took out the trash almost every day regardless if anyone else was putting trash in there. We found a cockRoach and a silverfish in our bathroom. And the room smelled funky when we got there. I believe it was the bed, I washed the sheets and bought plugins. That seemed to solved that problem.
The house is nice, although this room felt stuffy and by far warmer than the rest of the place. We had to keep the door open so that air from the rest of the house house could come in.
Also, When we booked this listing Rick made us aware that quiet time is 10 pm,
Unfortunately, After one night of being there, he updated the rules to say that “there is no one to be in the common areas after 10 and all guest must remain in your rented space bedroom for the remainder of the evening until 6:00 am.” I was there for work purposes and I get home from work hungry after 10 pm. If I knew that rules were so strict and that I wasn’t going to be able to use the kitchen to eat comfortably (even as quiet as can be), I wouldn’t have chosen this listing.
Rick was quick to respond, but honestly, I had never had so many msgs from a host during a stay before. Rick seems to be very Lenient and understanding, but gosh, I believe, influenced by a particular guest that stayed there as well (the whole duration of our stay), he became a bit hostile about every little thing.
First, he messaged to update us that time means no getting out of our rooms. As mentioned before, our room was HOT, and we lowered the temp for comfort, another problem, messaged us that we can’t touch the thermostat. When we mentioned it was hot in our room, hotter than the rest of the house, he said nothing was wrong with the AC, that it was summer and that keeping the room door open would help (didn’t like that it meant we sacrifice privacy for fresher room, but what else could I do?). He did make a fan available for us, but it bothered me that he wouldn’t acknowledge there was a problem with the AC.
In addition, I don’t use, never have used a dishwasher) After telling us that we couldn’t be in common areas/make any noise after 10, we would come home, eat in our room and leave dishes out during the night to wash the next morning, in an attempt to follow the quiet time rule and be considerate of other guests sleeping. After washing dishes the next day we left them out to dry before putting them away. We always put them away, we always took out the trash, I personally cleaned after the other guest because he sometimes wouldn’t. Rick “friendly” reminds us to cooperate, be responsible and mindful of cleaning and putting dishes away, as well as cleaning the floor and wipe down counters after usages of each space. My point being, we would get “backlash” for everything we did or didn’t do.