I stayed at Christian's place with a group of friends for a long weekend during Austin City Limits music festival. The location was great and the unit was clean, but not spotless (a small amount pet hair on the floor of the bedroom as an example) and this would have been a great stay except for some issues.
1. We couldn't determine the source of the smoke odor but there was an extremely strong smoke smell throughout the apartment. It didn't smell like cigarettes or anything like that, more like a fire in the kitchen as the smell seemed strongest in the kitchen. We initially thought we might get used to it, but after the first night it was so bad we contacted airbnb support to see if we could move somewhere else. Unfortunately, since it was a festival weekend, all of the other nearby options were already booked or extremely expensive. The smell soaked into our clothes and luggage and once we got home, all of us had to wash our clothes multiple times to get the smell out. We weren't warned about this issue at all before we arrived.
2. Issues with directions for parking. We were provided a photocopy of a parking windshield decal and the arrival message said to tape it to the passenger side window. Later, once we had already left for the day and left the car there, we got a message saying cars were being towed and that we needed to carefully cut out just the picture of the decal without any of the white paper showing and tape it to the drivers side window to avoid getting towed. Luckily we did not get towed, but we didn't appreciate the mix-up in instructions.
3. Description of property - this was advertised as a condo but it is really an apartment at an apartment complex. We were asked by the hosts to keep a low profile and refer to ourselves as friends of theirs rather than as airbnb guests.