This Airnbnb would be fine for a short term stay, but I would not recommend it for long term stays. It is in a great location, the Roku TV was nice, and shampoo and conditioner was provided. However, there were many issues with my stay including the smell of cigarette smoke throughout the house from the host’s outdoor smoking (on her screened in porch), a bedroom with no exterior windows, extremely limited storage space, the shower on another floor and shared with another guest, an ongoing bug problem, and a lack of cleanliness.
The bedroom is a converted dining room with no exterior windows. The dresser is just cabinets built into the wall, leftover from the converted dining room. These two cabinets are both half full of the host’s belongings, and every counter, table, and shelf is covered in knick knacks, so there is not much space for any folded clothing. For hanging clothes, there is just a 30 inch plastic curtain rod in a triangular alcove, so hangers only fit in the widest part of the alcove.
You get one shelf in the fridge and one shelf in a cabinet for any food storage, and these are to be shared with any other Airbnb guests, who stay in the room rented out upstairs. However, the host and her cousin also use the guest shelves for their personal storage.
Some inaccuracies with the listing are: “Lake Access” and “Room Darkening Shades”. The lake belongs to the golf course that backs the house, so it is not a lake with public access. The host recommends that guests walk on the golf path for exercise, but this is not a public path. The “Room Darkening Shades” is inaccurate simply because there is not a window in the room, so there are no shades. The listing also says wine glasses are provided even though there is a rule against alcohol.
There is a half bath across from the bedroom, but the shower is on another floor and shared with another guest. The bathroom with the shower appeared to be cleaned only one time during my 3 month stay. The shower has a squeegee for guests to clean up after themselves, but the squeegee was moldy. The hand towels in the half bath were only washed twice, and it appeared that the host just re folded the dirty towels so they appeared clean.
At one point the latch to the half bath got stuck and when I informed the host she told me I wasn’t allowed to use the other bathroom for anything other than showering, seemingly expecting me to use a bathroom with a door that did not close. I ended up fixing the door myself.
This house had an ongoing bug problem for the entirety of my stay. Ants are seasonal, but the host made no effort to get rid of them. They climb all over the food in the kitchen, live in the microwave, and coat the clean dishes on the drying rack. They are all over both levels of the house. The host would leave perishable food (such as cut up fruit and the ends of green onion) rotting on the counter for weeks at a time throughout my stay. When I suggested getting the house treated for bugs, she said she would not be doing that and said that my food was the only thing attracting them to her house. I also found a dead cockroach in the kitchen. The shower always had flies, and at one point the shower had a lizard. Eventually the host provided me with Raid so that I could spray her whole house for her, but cleaned up the raid after an hour, so it was ineffective.
The host has cameras in her kitchen that also watch the bedroom door and the bathroom door, and the only person with access to the cameras is her son, who does not live with her. One day, after finding a piece of glass on the floor days earlier, the host attempted to blame me for breaking a plate that I wasn’t aware was broken. She could have had her son check the camera footage to see who broke it instead of randomly blaming the airbnb guests in her house.
The wifi went out for 4 days during my stay.
The host and her cousin are home 24/7, so they are available if you need something and they are willing to help, but you will never have any time or space to yourself.
The host leaves the TV on in the room next to the guest bedroom from 8:30am-10pm every day even when no one is watching, and at one point left it on overnight. The volume is always on high and can be heard clearly in the bedroom. She also talks loudly upstairs until at least 11:30 every night, which will keep you up.