Run down and older place, serviceable but not much else. This condo has not been updated and is full of a bunch of broken furniture. The rung on the stool will pop out when you try to put your feet on it. The table leg is held together by Saran Wrap. The couch is darned. The towels so threadbare that they leave fuzz all over your face when you try to dry it. There’s stuff everywhere - bird statues, hanging plaques, prayers hung on the wall, just dusty old crap that you have to constantly move and keep clean.
The owner herself admitted to me in a text that they hadn’t bought anything new for the place in years. The host was another problem. She texted constantly. On my second day she started texting asking me to commit to staying longer. I told her I didn’t know my plans (true) and it was too soon for me to make a decision. She kept texting and then, on my last day, tried to guilt trip me for not staying - claiming they’d turned down other renters because they’d thought I’d stay (even though I have texts explicitly telling her to do ahead and rent to someone else because I didn’t know what I was doing !). She also tried to get me to sign another lease and told me if I did stay we could go outside the air bnb platform. She made me very uncomfortable.
The grass in the backyard is gross, prickly and crabgrass. So you won’t enjoy the backyard space. The area isn’t walkable, so not great if you bring a dog.
Speaking of dogs...they allowed them but told me they’d never had them before. The host was clearly uncomfortable having one in the condo. On the last day she insisted on coming for a walk through. I warned her that my dog was still a puppy and might react to a stranger in her place. She said fine.
After I left and after she said everything was fine on the walk through, she texted that she’d found a small puddle of dog pee. I said that my dog probably peed a little on the floor when the owner came in because she was scared and apologized for not catching it. She tried to charge me $100 for clean up.
She also tried to claim that a pee stain on the mattress pad was from my stay and charge me $100 for that. But I’d stripped the bed and washed all the sheets for her before moving out, she saw the mattress pad on her walk through and had no issue with it! In short, because she was upset with me for not staying I feel like she tried whatever excuse she could to get more money out of me.
It sucks because this was my first time using Air BnB and id been really nervous after hearing bad stories about it, and this experience wasn’t great. I’d even paid out of my own pocket $150 to have it professionally cleaned before I left (they never cleaned it while I was there) because I was worried about having issues with the host.
Poor location (which the host discloses in the listing), annoying host who will text you constantly. Run down, broken furniture, over priced.