So I am really torn writing this. I have very conflicting feelings. When I got there the place blew me away, the host was very accommodating- I arrived in a heat wave and no ac (as is normal for seattle) and she brought me a second fan immediately. I noticed an ant problem, found out that’s a seattle thing too, but couldn’t find a swiffer or any real cleaning supplies to stay on top of the ant issue. Plus being there for a month I would want to clean/take care of the place! Messaged the host and she brought me a swiffer right away. I went to swiffer the floors immediately and just doing the small kitchen alone the pad came up black. I swiffered the kitchen 5 times and got black pads each time. And started noticing an overall lack of cleanliness everywhere. Crumbs in cabinets, dirty surfaces. The tile clearly hadn’t been deep cleaned in a long time. I wasn’t bothered but I did want it cleaned up. She was really apologetic and sent new cleaners. They stayed for 7 hours it was that bad but we took care of it and that’s all I cared about! But then, I discovered the sink leaking really really bad. Like filled a bucket in a day. Coincidentally there was a bucket right under the leak spot lol so idk if she knew about it or what. But either way I was starting to get a little frustrated as I paid a lot for this place. But I still just tried to work with her, get a plumber in, and move on. Somehow tho it dragged on and I don’t really understand how lol like if that were my place I would send a plumber asap. The hosts daughter came by with towels so I could keep mopping up the kitchen floor and told me to let them know when I needed new ones and to put the old ones on the porch and they would come get them. And to follow up about when the plumber would be there bc she thought her mom had booked one. I did exactly that and things just escalated from there. They tried to kick me out claiming they needed to redo the whole kitchen. But I had literally no where to go. Nowhere in seattle was there a place I could stay that was even remotely near the area I needed to be. I kept explain that and just asked for a plumber repeatedly. You could see the leaks and that it was likely an easy fix. Then she tried to kick me out bc I contacted her too much. But I’m not sure what else I was supposed to do? Let the kitchen flood daily? Anyways. We got a plumber in, he fixed it in 18 minutes. All was well moving forward for the most part. The ant problem got perpetually worse, talked to friends and other Airbnb hosts in the area and essentially what I think is going on is she should be regularly exterminating and she isn’t. we couldn’t leave dog food in a bowl without removing it the second the dog was done eating bc Ants would come. Found ant hoards in the cabinet with clean dishes, if we cooked and missed one crumb in cleanup we got ant hoards. Essentially, this is is old home yes, but it’s not kept up in terms of cleaning or bugs so the normal seattle issues were exasperated.
However, the location was incredible. 10 walk to Fremont, 20 min walk to Ballard, the place was tucked away too so very quiet and private. I really loved the place and didn’t mind dealing with all those issues. It was just frustrating to pay 3400+ and to have so many issues - but mainly for it to be such a to do to resolve them. I want to reiterate I could not leave. There were no Airbnb properties left in the city for the parameters I needed. Which is why I just wanted to work together to resolve the issues.