Mina is an extremely sweet person. I had a few long conversations with her and I think she has a heart of gold. A few good things:
(1) Mina communicated well--she responded to all of my messages promptly, and when I requested an hour extension on check-out, she happily allowed me to.
(2) Check-in, and locking the front door whenever I left the house, was convenient and easy due to the numeric lock feature.
(3) The bed was comfortable and the room was spacious enough for me.
Unfortunately, there were tons of issues with this place that caused me to have an unpleasant stay here. I'll list a few below:
(1) The listing mentioned that one of the included amenities was Air Conditioning, which was a requirement for me when I was choosing this listing because I knew that there would be a heat wave (100+ degrees) during my stay. However, upon arrival, Mina explained that central AC was not available in the house. Instead, she provided me with a portable AC unit, which was falling apart, leaking water, and was extremely loud and disrupted my sleep. I appreciated that she spent time and effort helping me set this up on my first night, but it was definitely not central AC, which would have been quiet and much more effective. I openly asked Mina about this; I informed her that her listing mentioned AC as one of the amenities. When she looked into it, she realized that she had made a mistake, and she reassured me that she would remove it in from the airbnb listing in the future. However, her mistake caused me to book here and have disrupted sleep due to the very loud portable AC unit.
(2) Multiple things in the house were broken or falling apart. To list a few:
(a) The portable AC unit (mentioned above) was falling apart, leaked water, and the main tube kept falling out. As well, the unit was extremely loud, which disrupted my sleep.
(b) The bathroom faucet has two knobs: hot and cold. During my stay, the cold knob was completely broken, so I was forced to use hot water. The fact that I could only use hot water during a 100+ degree heat wave was an awful experience. I asked Mina about it, and she apologized about it, but took no steps to actually fix it.
(c) In the bedroom, the feet of the table/desk were broken and tilted, causing the table to be super wobbly.
(d) The bedroom blinds' stick (to control the angle of the blinds) had completely broken off, so it was not possible to adjust the angle of the blinds. I wanted to close the blinds, but because the stick was broken off, I could not do this. Mina made no attempted at fixing this or having someone come to fix it.
(e) In the bedroom, the lamp flickered on and off and would not reliably stay on.
(f) The toilet apparently was not robust enough to handle *any* toilet paper to be flushed down. Mina had placed a post-it note in the bathroom requesting that all used toilet paper be placed in the bin, which is not hygienic.
(g) The shower drain became completely stopped up and didn't drain during my second day there. I messaged Mina about it and she cleaned the drain to resolve the issue. But this added to my impression that so many things throughout the house were problematic and not functioning well.
I would advise against staying here until/unless Mina fixes the various problems I mentioned above.