The following statements are all facts and all were communicated to the host and Airbnb. I have taken many pictures and documented everything for future reference. My husband and I with our 2 dogs lived in this house for 55 days (January and February) while we were renovating our own house.
There were so many stains on the furniture (one couch and chairs) and decorative pillows. They look disgusting. Everything looked old and worn down. I refused to sit on a dirty couch / chairs so I had to cover them with blankets and sheets and washed them weekly. I also brought in my own maid to clean the house. We didn't use any items in the kitchen and brought in everything we needed because the house wasn't what we expected and was dirty. The house has multiple levels. Downstairs was always freezing cold and the downstairs bathroom was made for tiny small people. It was so cold and so small in there that I couldn't take a shower so now we are down to one shower upstairs. The only thing that was comfortable in this house was the king size bed on the 3rd floor (which there was no extra king size sheets). The upstairs closet has a window so I had to cover it with a blanket to be able to change without putting on the show for the neighbors and people on the street.
The pictures don't show the condition of this house. It's run down and very dirty. The backyard is more of a junk yard, fence is about to fall off, rat traps everywhere, (there was a toilet brush sitting in the back yard and trash bin over flowing with trash bags); no grass in the backyard, just gravels so when it's raining you get nothing but mud and dirt and my dogs were dirty all the time because of it.
The host started out very rude because I emailed him expressing my "disappointment" about the condition of the house and backyard right after we checked and all he said was he has a 5 star rating and doesn't understand what I am talking about. There was minimal communications between us. The only time he was nice was on the last day after I cleaned everything, moved all the sheets and towels to the laundry room.
The house is very close to the highway and you can hear everything. Also the house is half a block away from all the bars and restaurants so can you hear drunk / loud people in all odd hours (mostly at 2-4 am).
Check in wasn't easy because we couldn't park one of our 2 cars in the detached garage. The ramp was too deep and it was hitting the bumper and the bottom of my husband's car but since I have SUV, I could park. The garage was dirty and had boxes and things all over. There was no remote for the gate nor the garage door so in order to park my car, I had to get out 4 times to open and close each door. Try this when it's raining hard and it's cold. After the 2nd day the keypad for the garage stopped working so instead of fixing it, the host asked me to walk around and go thru another door to open the garage door. To him it' just 10 steps around the corner but to me it was walking thru rain and cold. He didn't care!
We spent $13k for 2 months for this house and we hated every minute of it. I asked the host several times to let me know before anybody shows up to the house because of my 2 dogs and working from home but he would send people to the backyard without any notifications. There is nothing luxury about this house as they advertised.