This place has some issues but for the price, it’s not terrible but also not great.
Cons:
—no central AC. We ran the window and floor units at max the entire time at the lowest temps (62 for window units and 64 for floor unit) and the main part of the house stays 70-76 during the day, gets to 66-68 overnight. The kitchen is 80+. We brought two box fans and had to run them 24/7 to push air into the kitchen as it has no circulation. Kitchen stayed hot the whole time. Not ideal for food prep. Wouldn’t run the oven due to temp being so hot in there already.
—the kitchen is, to put it mildly, pretty bad. Multiple outlets don’t work (same true for other areas of the home). To use the microwave, you have to roll it’s cart (it’s on a cart) to the other side of the kitchen and have it in the middle of the kitchen. It was not clean.
—No dishwasher.
—We found roaches in the kitchen and roach droppings in one of the bedrooms.
—there is coffee, spices, and oil available in the kitchen which as I said is 80 degrees, so they will likely go bad.
—the photos are inaccurate. As another reviewer recently commented, the place is staged for the photos. If the photos show a 10/10., reality is a 3-5/10 depending on the room. The living room looks nice, but in reality, nothing in it works. The TV works but had consistent issues running airplay. Restarting my app, my phone, the TV at least 5-6 times per episode. So we didn’t watch much TV. The record player has no records and also does not work. Same for the sound system. They’re just there to look nice.
—there is something in the chimney. I don’t know what it is, but our dog would not stop staring at it and trying to sniff there.
—the bathroom also has no circulating air. It only gets air if you leave both doors to the bedrooms open so their wall units can get some cold air into the bathroom.
—Not enough towels and the ones provided smell/have old stains.
—4 rolls of TP and 1 paper towel roll was provided for a 9 day stay for 2 adults. We had to buy more.
—the dishes had to be rewashed. Host relies on the prior customer to have hand washed their dishes. That puts a lot of trust in the last tenant’s cleanliness.
—broken blinds, cracks in the walls, and 3 metal cylinders sticking up from the floor in random rooms that are just waiting for you to crack your toe on them and trip. Had to put rolls of orange duct tape around each one so we could see them at night, like little traffic cones. I can’t imagine a kiddo or a pet stepping on one of them and needing stitches and a tetanus shot. Luckily we noticed them right away.
—there’s a reason they don’t show the inside of the shower on the photos. It is clearly pasted plastic panels over an old wall, poorly caulked in place, with an old tub. Getting hot water was difficult.
—bathroom sink is clogged and routinely and frequently builds up water.
—we ordered Doordash. The dasher called me and asked me which house I was in. Apparently there is no house number outside. When I went outside, I told the dasher that we were renting through Airbnb and her response was, “Really?! It looks raggedy as f***.” She was not wrong.
—when I stripped my mattress on checkout, there’s two huge overlapping yellow stains on it, that I had apparently been sleeping on the entire time.
—the carpets have massive stains all over them.
PROS-
—location is good. Close to downtown, 7th street, and magnolia as well as the cultural district. However lots of houseless people in the area, yelling nonsense. And lots of ambulances and helicopters as it’s in medical district.
—we paid about $1600 for 9 nights. It was the second cheapest place available. So for the cost, I suppose a lot of the cosmetic stuff could be forgiven there.
—beds were comfortable
—the window units keep the bedrooms nice and cold.
The only reason we did not contact the host with all of these issues is that there were SO many of them, that there would’ve been no other solution other than for us to leave and find another place. However at that short notice, literally everything else was booked so we were stuck. Overall, we gave it 3 stars for the price and proximity to stuff in FW.