I will start off by saying that I stayed here for an entire month with my fiancé and dog. This one bedroom apartment is beautifully decorated. You can see they put money into it and redid the kitchen, floors, repainted, bought new furniture. All super nice and super cute. I appreciated having a private patio, since I did have my dog with me. It was nice to have an outside space, that always had a PERFECT breeze. My only complaint is that there was no bbq grill, and the nice bench they have is super hard, so after about 20 minutes, you can’t fathom sitting there any longer. We ended up at Walmart spending $20 on a random patio cushion for the bench.
TV was great. Has all the streaming services you want, just put your own email and password and you’re ready to go. The basic cable…trash. It was random show channels. Like a channel that only played Project Runway and nothing else. I had never seen that before, but maybe it’s a Florida thing??
Living room was great. Only complaint there is that the double glass doors that lead to the patio make you feel very exposed at night. Another Walmart trip to buy the cheapest rod and curtains to put up for our stay. Even though the patio is not seen from the street, I still felt weird about it. Which brings me to my next point.
The next door neighbors of this apartment complex, meaning directly behind the patio, is a trashy bodega (general store) that ALWAYS had very sketchy people hanging out there drinking and smoking. Pretty sure we witnessed a few sketchy exchanged, as well, if you get what I mean. There was never a point that someone sketchy wasn’t just sitting there. So even though they can’t see in, I still felt very weird and had to spend money on curtains. Also do not ever leave the patio doors unlocked. The gate to get into the patio from the parking lot is not locked. It appears to have a padlock but pretty sure it’s just for show. My fiancé ended up making some crafty lock with wire rope and a screw driver so you couldn’t open it from the outside.
Kitchen was EXCELLENT. Had anything and everything you could possibly want in a kitchen to cook. We stayed a month so we utilized the kitchen every single day. Only complaint there, no dish washer and no dish drying rack. This time a trip to the dollar store to buy a dish drying rack.
Bedroom was very basic. Nice bed. Nice pillows. Didn’t appreciate the bed was a Queen but the flat sheet was for a King size bed and the comforter was for a Full size bed. Invest in an actual Queen set. Big closet, but annoying that there were no drawers to put socks and underwear in. I was forced to put my t-shirts on hangers because where else was I going to put it?
Basic bathroom. Should have invested to redo the old tiles in the shower. Towels were super hard. Not nice towels at all. Water pressure was not great. They thought they were being fancy with a “rainfall” shower head. That takes FOREVER to wash your hair with zero water pressure. Water temp. was AMAZING. The water was boiling hot, which I loved. Especially for the dishes.
Laundry. Two washer and dryers for the entire complex, which as at least 16-20 apartments. Didn’t like that at all, but I am very picky about my laundry situation. Also come with lots and lots of quarters because it’s $1.75 per machine.
Air conditioners are WONDERFUL. There were times I had to shut them off because it was so cold in the apartment. I was always in a sweater when inside. Also a very easy 10-12 minute drive to the beaches. But bring your own beach chairs and umbrellas. There is none of that here.
Lastly, good luck getting in touch with whoever owns this property. We had a question about where to put the garbage. They had no idea. I had to stalk my front door and wait to see someone else who lived here to ask where the dumpster is. It’s literally on the other side of the building, where we thought was a whole other apartment complex, but apparently it’s not. Anytime I would try to contact the person on Airbnb I would get a very generic message, or they would give me a random phone number to call, which NEVER worked. It was clearly an international number. Same with the email. I would email whatever random email they would give me only to have it bounce back.
All in all, the apartment was very nice, just wish it was in a bit of a nicer location. Even just up the block was nicer than being next to the bodega.