After extensive Airbnb research on her host profile, I booked with Grace due to her great reviews. She and her staff were very responsive and worked with me to address my main concern with this building, which reviews mentioned was a smell.
The building is historic and renovated, so it has a musty smell; the overwhelming odor was from air fresheners throughout the halls and some Febreeze plug-ins inside the unit. I requested their removal and that greatly decreased the smell. Upon our return, our clothes retained the smell of air fresheners but it came out upon laundering. The smell was to be expected from an older building, and I didn’t mind it.
The unit itself was very clean, beautifully decorated, and had a great view over the library and adjoining park. Other reviews mentioned a large homeless population, but it was a small population consistent with downtown of any big city; they left us alone.
Only other thing is the water pressure is weak enough that I couldn’t wash my hair.