Melissa’s apartment is in a perfect location - within walking distance of the beautiful UW campus, the University District, the UW Medicine Montlake medical center, Husky Stadium, University Village, the picturesque Montlake Cut, the Arboretum, breathtaking mountain views, Lake Union and Gasworks Park. If you have a car, it has fantastic access to I-5 North and South. You won’t find better access to some fantastic sights, smells and sounds of Seattle. Melissa was very kind, even when I was the one in error around a complaint I made. Parking is very tight (spaces are small and cramped) in the building lot and during the week there was absolutely nothing on the street, though it is free if you can find it. What was a bit strange was that during my initial Airbnb app email back and forth Melissa was articulate, smart and wrote in perfect English, matching her bio which describes her as a PhD in a field of economics and a mom. At some point this erudite Melissa transitioned to someone who wrote in very fragmented English. The transition was so jarring that at first I thought I was hacked, as she suddenly sent me a URL link out of the blue to a bizarre news article about Taiwan becoming the 51st state. The Airbnb picture shows a squeaky clean room, nicely furnished, well lit, and with a TV flat screen. Right away Melissa told me that the room would not be clean in time for me to move in, but she had a three bedroom place she could substitute if I didn’t use the other two rooms. I agreed. When I got there, it was in a basically clean but run down, dimly lit place with one bedroom that had the windows open wide, perhaps to mask the distinctive, unremovable sooty smell of years of once heavy cigarette smoking that had occurred there in the past. I got over it, but between Melissa 1, Melissa 2, Taiwan as the 51st state, the room switcheroo, and the contrast between the room in the picture and the room I was in, many guests would have been seriously weirded out. Anyway, the room location kept me happy enough. So what if Melissa 1 is an erudite economist, Melissa 2 hardly speaks English and sends me bizarre URLs, and the room has 1950s appliances and smells like decades of unremovable tobacco soot. It was only 4 nights after all, and the windows could have been closed and locked...right? But, come on, let’s be fair: Washington DC and Puerto Rico both deserve Statehood WAY before Taiwan.