The good and not so good!! Jordana’s place was in an awesome location where I’ve owned a condo myself. NW Portland is simply the best place in Portland. Her place was older but bright colors and amenities like A/C was great. There’s a huge flight of stairs to go up so I saw that as a great chance for exercise but others might find it somewhat daunting. There was considerable noise from the street mostly from the factory across the street and buses running regularly. Slight problem but closing the windows helped dramatically. Kitchen was well equipped which made it nice to cook meals. The TV situation was very primitive. No Netflix etc which in this day and age seemed like a problem. I had my Apple TV sent from Florida which made the tV situation workable. I would encourage Jordana to add least add a chromecast or some other device to make that situation better.
The bed was very uncomfortable. So much so we purchased a memory foam bed from amazon and offered it to her for free when we left which she decline. Likely for a few nights the bed would have worked out but we were staying for s month so we had to find a solution which we were happy to do. Overall tho we made the place work for us as the location was so awesome. What really confounded is tho was what happened after checkout. The person staying with me is a real clean freak and asked for cleaning supplies so we could keep the place clean during our stay there. She cleaned numerous times and especially made an effort to clean the kitchen, the floors and even the bathroom. We admittedly were 20-25 min late to checkout and were admonished about that soon after we left. She then accused us of leaving the place dirty and unkempt. There were even pictures of huge items of trash on the kitchen floor which clearly was a manufactured photo taken by the housekeeper. Jordana herself did not see the place. What followed was allegations that were simply not true.
I should have taken pictures during checkout but never imagined someone would treat us this way. I did take pictures of her A/C unit which was leaking and had basically a bandage attached to hold the duct. I fixed that with professional duct tape. We are professional women who actually live at a much higher standard that Jordana’s place and would never leave a place without cleaning thoroughly. We didn’t put the dishes in the cabinet but they were all scrubbed clean. It changed my mind about staying in an Airbnb that someone can try to malign u without cause. I myself have an Airbnb in Sarasota Florida but have never treated people this way. I offered her $75 to try to appease her but she didn’t seem appreciat or consider that I was being genuine and honest about how we treated her property. It was a very upsetting experience when it didn’t have to be. . Despite the issues mentioned with the place that we readily solved, it would have been a positive experience but what cane later from Jordana in terms of accusations and her relying on a housekeeper who may have questionable motives made it not worth utilizing Airbnb setting without taking precautions to document along the way.