The apartment is very fair for the price.
(+) Positive aspects:
* it has a VERY GOOD location; downtown is known by having a lot of homeless and so, but honestly it did not bother us at all. The apartment is 10min walking from Waterfront Park, to pioneer square and to nice restaurant area at Pearl. Everything you need you can walk and reach.
* Sarah is a very nice hostess. Check in was easy and during our 3months staying she was always quickly reachable for questions, supports etc.
* The price was the best from the region for an Airbnb. Besides some negative points I will list below, I thing the cost benefit is very high in Sarah’s place.
* all the equipment (dish and clothes wash machine, oven, fridge, microwave etc) are fairly new and work perfectly. Kitchen is equipped with enough accessories for 1-2 persons.
* there is no parking available in the building but you can easily park on the street in front or on the private parking lot (around 150 usd/month). But from 7pm to 8am you don’t need to pay to park on most downtown streets. after getting used to the times, you would spend around 60 USD months to park on the streets paying only when necessary. We did it for 3 months and nothing happen to our car.
(-) Negative aspects:
* the apartment is in the ground floor and it means some noise in the morning. Nights are very ok because it is not turned to the busy streets around, but in the early morning you hear people from the other buildings coming down to dispose their trash as well as the “trash collector” picking it up. Also the thing about the noise come from the fact that the building is old (but of course refurbished and in good conditions to live) and the walls are than not so isolated.
* the bed is not good. I already suggest Sarah to replace it because it would make the apartment the best cost benefit ever.
* there is no cable tv (not a big issue for short staying, but for us in 3 months it was a little). Sarah offered us amazon tv, but at least for us, would be better to have “normal” cable tv
In a nutshell, out stay was very fair and if I go to Portland with the same budget to rent, I would stay there again.