This seemed like a great listing when we originally found it. The host seemed friendly, the location was good and the price fair. Unfortunately, the positives regarding this host end there.
Upon our arrival we found two spots of cat diarrhea sitting in the corner of our room. Some of which was on the wall. And we found that same cat, the one that left the diarrhea, sitting on our bed because our bedroom had been left wide open. We had no idea where that cat had been, what it stepped or slept on...nothing. We should have immediately complained. But seeing as this was the very start of our visit, we did not. We didn't want to ruin our stay. Our mistake. Because the problems continued.
The host does not provide a lock on the room you're staying in. This is the only host I've seen who doesn't provide a lock. I found this particularly odd considering the host has other renters/roommates in her house. But we were not deceived on this. She made this very clear.
Unfortunately, what she did not make clear is that she sometimes likes to smoke in her backyard. This was a surprise to us because one time when we arrived back at our room, we found the front door to the house wide open. The host apparently had the door wide open to air out the smoke smell. Understandable...except the room you rent is directly next to the front door.
And again, your room has no lock.
We again let this slide to avoid causing problems. Unfortunately, even after our reservation had ended...the problems continued. The day we left we continued to get harassing messages from this host. The most ridiculous of which included her complaining that we used too much toilet paper.
Except that we only used the toilet paper she provided.
We did not use extra. And all of these complaints ignore the cat poop cleaning we had to do at the start of our reservation. Overall this location/host ended up being a trap. We had hoped this would be a nice relaxing location near the city of Portland.
Unfortunately, all we got was a problematic host.