The experience overall was terrible.
We originally booked the place for a Fri and Sat night stay. We contacted the host, Gabe, to include Thu night as well. He blocked the extra night for us, but when we showed up on Thursday (at 11:20PM), the room was not ready. He gave us a different place to stay, but it required us to carry all of our stuff back to the car and go to the new place a block away when it was extremely cold and dark. When we got to the new place, the key was not in the lockbox as he had said, so we had to wait for him to come over to open the place for us. In the end, we did not check in until after midnight.
The property itself was clean, but there were some big issues:
1) There was a gas furnace in the unit that wasn't working, so it was extremely cold the first night. The second day, even during the daytime, the apartment was so cold that we were shivering. After we couldn't stand the cold, we decided to ask him if he can fix the furnace but he offered to bring us a space heater. It certainly helped, but even at max setting, it was still a bit cold.
2) The WiFi was not set up when we arrived, but he did take care of it the next day only after we had mentioned it to him.
3) The bedroom and living room was only dimly lit as each only had a portable light. It was manageable during the day, but we had to use our cellphone light at night.
Although he was responsive to our texts and brought us things that we asked for, it was not "paradise" as described.
