I am supposed to tell future travelers what to expect at Marcos's place:
First, know that the person meeting you and representing himself as the host is, according to Marcos, the cleaning person and can do nothing to assist you. Know that you will have to pay $40 cash when you arrive to park and enter through a back entrance because the person meeting you does not have a key.
Then, be prepared for what you walk into which is nothing like what is pictured online. There is mold EVERYWHERE! On the baseboards, the walls, and especially on the air conditioner vents. One bathroom doesn't have working lights, the paint is bubbling up and coming off the walls, the vanity is broken, and half the mirror above the sink is missing. There are no hand towels, paper towels, wash cloths, etc. There are 6 very old, stained bath towels for the entire unit.
The bedding is not what is pictured online. Those pillows shown on the couch? Those appear to have been re purposed as the pillows on the beds in the room with 2 beds. The beds were made but the sheets appear to have been used as they had hair on them when we pulled them back. Nothing like crawling into bed after 12 hours of travel to be greeted by someone's missing black curly...!! The pillows looked like they had seen better days maybe 10 years ago when purchased.
If you expected light in the bedrooms just know one room had a non functioning lamp and the other had working lamps but the shades were broken. There was also a nice hole in the wall that wasn't featured online.
The furniture is OLD. It is DAMAGED. It is BROKEN. -Also not pictured online.
When you realize there is NO WAY you can stay here and you ask the person who let you in if they have something else then know he's going to say no, there is nothing he can do. And if 2 of your 4 kids you are with have asthma and there is no way they can be in a place full of mold even if you can get past the dirty beds and broken furniture, you are going to be scrambling to figure out what to do.
Oh, and the lock to the front door is held on by duct tape from the inside.
In my case, after being told there was nothing the guy letting us in could do, who at that time I believed to be the host because that is how he was representing himself, I called Airbnb. Who, thus far, have done nothing to assist me.
I was later refunded about $400 of the $1400 I paid by Marcos, who told me the guy who met us was a cleaning guy and that he could have put us in one of many units he manages but said he would not issue a full refund because I, "overreacted and chose not to stay there."
So there you have it. If you don't mind lots of mold, broken lights, furniture, dirty linens, (or decide to pack your own linens) go for it. Otherwise I suggest you save yourself some stress and money and find another place to spend your vacation.