I, too, am staying in an STR, and yes, my perspective has become WAY more critical since I became a host. This is a nice, clean basement apartment, but very under-supplied. My practice is to give a better-than-deserved review to other hosts but provide detailed suggestions in private feedback.
Here's my list:
Extremely precarious and difficult entry from driveway, involving loose rocks, steps, super-narrow brick path. I arrived in a wheelchair. Getting in was not easy.
Dirty Stovetop.
@Sarah Lorenz, you would not have been happy with the single frying pan here as the sole cookware.
Capacity of 4, but flatware settings for 2, along with small collection of cooking utensils.
Basement apartment = spiders. They don't bother me, but many guests freak over them.
Awkward living-room layout that makes it nearly impossible to watch TV.
Passageway of about 10" into dining room.
Cupboard that opens on, and is only accessible from, the living room rather than the kitchen.
Basement apartment = noise upstairs. Mostly tolerable, except there is a child who periodically gallops the length of the house for up to 30 mins at a time.
Dish detergent and body wash seem to be watered down.
One, repeat 1, towel each for 2 people for 9 days. 2 rolls of TP.
No house manual /house rules.
At least it's better than the one in Chicago last year with a giant hair clog in the shower drain and tons of disgusting leftovers in the fridge (and lots more stuff).
