There were a few positives with our stay, but overall, choosing this Airbnb put a damper on our entire vacation.

Positives:
- The owners let us drop our bags off prior to check in so we could enjoy the town luggage-free
- The location is unbeatable – easy walking to Rainey St. and other cool Austin areas

Negatives:
- Our biggest issue was a miserable night spent when the air conditioning went out. Our party got almost no sleep because it was so hot in the house. It was so bad that half of our party was so fed up that they booked a hotel room for our last night in Austin. They did eventually come up and fix the air conditioning for the last night, but the damage was already done.
- There was a large masseuse table that was oddly stored in the living room, which made it difficult to enjoy the small amount of space we already had to work with. We ended up moving this table to the kitchen to allow us more communal space.
- The couch pictured is not the same one that was there during our stay. It is smaller than that.
- When we arrived, there were dishes in the sink. Additionally, the freezer was disgusting: filled with rotting banana peels and old avocado pits.
- The power went out several times on the last night during a storm.
- Aside from the few dishes in the sink, there were almost no eating/drinking utensils. We had no cups to drink from, so we ended up having to go out and buy solo cups for the weekend.
- We admit that we broke the house rule of being out on the patio after 10:30pm and got scolded. But come on, when you rent out your place for parties as big as 11 people, you don’t expect them to want to enjoy themselves after dark?

I suppose you get what you pay for, but we definitely wish we had spent the extra few dollars on a nicer place to make our stay in Austin more enjoyable. There are a lot of close up photos in listing and not many of actual living space - this should have been a clue to us. Overall cleanliness was below average.
This rental is the second floor of a house and the owner lives on the first floor. It definitely felt like we were intruding the entire weekend.