When we arrived, the first thing that jumped out at us is the overpowering smell of air fresheners. A quick scan around the house and you noticed that every room had an air freshener plugged into an outlet (and the kitchen/living space had a few). This is a small to medium-sized house, so the number of air fresheners stood out as odd. We started to unplug these air fresheners, and within 20 minutes, there was a strong, awful stench. I thought it was a small animal that may have died somewhere, but my wife reminded me of the smell of old, untreated mildew, which I thought was more accurate. The smell permeated from the kitchen to most of the house. It is so overpowering that you can't sit in the front room for any amount of time. We essentially stayed in the bedrooms with the doors closed to escape most of the smell. We made the mistake of extending our trip an extra day before we stepped into this house. When we woke up the next morning, we looked for other accommodations, but we were stuck. We told him about this smell, but he acts as if we were making it up. My wife challenged him to spend a night in his rental (minus the air fresheners).
He lists this place as dog-friendly. It is not. The backyard is an awful disjointed space with a strange motion detector setup that went off every time you went into the backyard (notice there are no pictures of the backyard). Every time we let the dogs out, my wife had to pick these prickly stickers off them, sometimes 40 or 50 of them. Each one hurts your hand to pull off. If he managed the backyard and cleaned it up, maybe that would resolve the issue. If you have an animal, DO NOT stay here.
There is a rooster across the street that crows throughout the night and morning. If you are a light sleeper or staying in that front bedroom (closest to the front of the house) you will be awakened multiple times during the night by this rooster.
All in all, this is a bad AirBnB in a sketchy neighborhood. Sticking up air fresheners everywhere to hide the stench isn't fixing anything. You're trying to mask the awful smell.
I've had bad experiences with AirBnBs before... usually, I don't care to write a comment, but this place is awful, and his response to the awful smell is unacceptable.