PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE BOOKING! This listing is NOT as great as it looks. It’s a catfish, really. The only positive thing about this Airbnb is the kind & responsive host- he really is so nice, but that only goes so far. I would recommend the host/ home owner come and check out the home before a new guest checks in. Hire new cleaning crew & maintenance crew. As we drove up, the yard was an absolute mess. Trash littered across the grass/ garden, and trampled rose bushes blocking the walk path. Lots of weeds & overgrowth everywhere. Once inside, we were hit with a smell of pure bleach. This must mean the house is clean! Wrong. There was a layer of dust pretty much everywhere, and the floors were just very dirty. Flies and gnats everywhere. The bathrooms all had a stench of mildew, and there was facial or pubic hair in both showers and one of the sinks. A piece of the wood surrounding the floor of the fireplace was sticking out/ broken. The hand soaps in the restroom were only filled to about a quarter of the bottle. There was additional soap under the sink, but I’m not sure why that wouldn’t be replaced before a new guest arrives. The downstairs sink had a damaged piece of hardware, while the upstairs sink must have been clogged because it drained extremely slowly. Upstairs shower door doesn’t close, and resulted in a very slippery shower experience. My husband slipped and fell and ended up bruised all over his back. The downstairs bathroom had loose hardware and had a very strange, musky smell in the shower. After about 2 hours, the bleach smell was gone & instead was replaced with a very odd stench, which stayed in the house the duration of the stay. The green bedroom door does not lock, nor does it have a closet or dressers.
The blue room has a middle window that doesn’t have a window treatment which lets sun in in the morning and the security lights from the parking lot next store shine in, ALL NIGHT LONG. Oh! And the garage door was left open upon our arrival. I contacted the host, and he said he would send a handyman over to close it- which the handyman did on the 3rd night of our stay. Very unsafe, especially with all of the homeless people in the area. When we went to the basement (a door marked Employees Only leads to the basement) to wash our clothing, it was filthy down there. We found a drill on the steps leading down to the basement, placed right by a door that leads outside. Look, I’m paying a premium for a cleaning fee for this house, and that means I expect it to be clean. This was ABSOLUTELY not clean by any standards, but DEFINITELY not COVID clean. I did speak to the host about how dirty the home was, so he offered to refund the cleaning fee, so I do hope that happens. Also, our 3rd night in, we got a knock at the door at 11pm- a homeless man asking for a blanket. We didn’t have one to spare, so he went across the street to sleep on their porch. We woke up to him yelling at around 7am. Not a cool wake up alarm. Personally, I could not recommend this location based off my stay.