Your Cozy One Bedroom Detroit

Arrived on time for my check-in only to discover the entire place had not been cleaned from the earlier tenants. Cleaners came, it was no problem, but the host's attitude about the entire issue was not acceptable. Hung up on me multiple times when I tried to ask after the solution, offered no sympathy or compensation for the inconvenience. You can tell this is a private equity company that offshores all managerial to oversea AI companies. Terrible service.

Mission accomplished! Positive: Location

Bare-bones apartment in excellent location, good value. Positive: Excellent location for visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts and other nearby museums and galleries, as well as architectural strolls in and around Wayne State University. Easy free street parking in front of the building. Negative: Apartment door code was not what we were given in the check-in information. It took awhile phoning the management company (who didn’t pick up but texted us back) to get the correct code (which actually was easier to memorize than the code in the check-in info because it differed from the front-door code by only the last digit). Kitchen had no towel rack or dish towels and minimal cooking and dining supplies (no frying pan, no baking sheet, no measuring cups, few forks, knives, and spoons). Bathtub was slippery and lacked a non-slip mat. Lighting was so-so, making it hard for two people to read in the living room. Should be easy for them to improve, if they want to.

Very disappointing Positive: The neighborhood Negative: Everything in the apartment was broken. From the couch to the shower to the bed.. had to sleep on the air mattress in the living room. Shower was clogged and they wanted me to check for hair from previous guests which is disgusting. Would never stay there again.

Read the fine print when you finalize your booking. There is an entire document of additional policies you must agree to. While we booked the to visit our kid in college, we found out too late that they could not enter the property. NOTE: do not try to use the elevator closest to the entrance. Proceed down the hall to the functioning elevator. The condition of the apartment was “meh”. Bed was very comfortable. However the couch was missing its legs (!) which made it too low to use comfortably. The LR ceiling light burned out after day 1 and the host did nothing. Clearly there had at one point been 4 sets of flatware and glasses, but about half were missing. Host refuses to use VRBOs platform for communication. They were minimally responsive through their designated platform. Another red flag 🚩