We come to Austin every year with 13-15 people to vendor at a large event at the Palmer Events Center and instead of hotel rooms we decided to opt for an AirBNB this year. We considered ourselves extremely lucky to have found this place with easy access to downtown and only 8 minutes away from the event center. It's decorated super cute with a super modern style, and they had everything we needed from extra towels/blankets to amenities like washer and dryer. Even a ton of cups, silverware, etc.
It's also an interesting setup, it's a main house and a guest house in the back yard (with a cute little courtyard/patio set-up between them) but the guest house is almost the same size as the main house so you end up with a pretty large space overall! The two house set-up was great because this was a work group so we were able to separate the team by gender and have a male house and female house so everyone's privacy regarding rooms/bathrooms/etc was respected. The parking situation is a bit iffy, but that's to be expected with downtown Austin. There is an extra driveway in the back alley that you can fit more cars in that wasn't advertised (unless I just missed it). It would be great to have the garages available for parking but I can totally understand if the owners don't want to take on any possible liability that that could come with or lose any storage space.
The neighbors were a bit aggressive from the moment we pulled up, but we just gave them their space and didn't engage. It's pretty common knowledge that Austin and it's residents hate AirBNB so that's kind of just something you have to deal with when renting within the city. One of the neighbors has a chicken that hops the fence and comes into the back yard sometimes and he was pretty chill so that makes up for it. We took to calling him Arturo.
All-in-all it was a great experience and the entire team loved it. We'll definitely save this listing and put it at the top of our list for lodging when we're back in town next year!