If you need a place to just sleep at night in a walkable neighborhood, I highly recommend this place. The beds and pillows were super comfortable, which means a lot to me because 80% of the AirBnBs we stay in have really cheap/crap beds and pillows even though the rest of the houses were awesome. But a few things to note about staying here:
-Covid19 check in and out: they are pretty much nonexistent. We’ve stayed in a few places this summer since Covid19 and every one of them had special check ins and outs and a list of what they were doing extra to prevent Covid19. I didn’t get any of that here, just the usual cleanup info.
-The place is smaller than the photos make it: there’s no place for a family of 4 to eat, other than in front of the TV, which is not ideal. Usually this isn’t an issue because Portland has so many good places to eat, but due to Covid19, we just wanted to get take out and bring it back to eat. The backyard has so much potential to have even a cheapy picnic table or something to eat back there, but there aren't even lawn chairs to enjoy sitting outside.
-Cleanliness issues: there were cigarette butts all over the back yard, especially in the entrance to the garage where the washer and dryer were. We went into the garage only to do a load of laundry, but there was wet bedding in the washer and towels in the dryer. We ended up finishing their laundry so we could do ours, which was also worrisome that they are not up keeping their linens (aka leaving wet linens on hot days in a washer, I can only image the mold smell if we didn't dry them when we checked in.) The trash bins outside on the sidewalk were filled to the brim. This was a problem, because we need to put our trash out there at check out, but didn’t want to leave them on the sidewalk.
-Noisy area: we had stayed four blocks down in another house on the same street last year but I think that house was better insulated because in this house we could hear all the trains throughout the day/night, traffic, and early morning truck beeps and bloops. If you are a light sleeper, bring ear plugs.
-Communication: the owner for the most part communicated with us well. Although, we let the owner know about the laundry and the trash situation but never got a reply back about it. We ended up just leaving our trash bags secured and tie in the kitchen instead of on the sidewalk.
I think for the price we paid, it was worth the stay because the beds were great and the neighborhood is awesome, but don’t expect any cool extras.