Finding An Airbnb Apartment In Rochester

ROCHESTER, New York- After finding it, let’s say, challenging to find an apartment to rent for a month in Rochester, we deferred to what has become our usual Modus operandi: Airbnb.

Do I like paying roughly 50% more for accommodation? No. Do I like paying a massive surcharge? No.

Do I like putting entire days towards finding accommodation and the hassles of not using Airbnb? No.

Airbnb is convenient — it saves a massive amount of time — there are not much in the way of security deposits, background checks, credit checks, potential scams, and all that BS that comes with renting an apartment in the USA without it.

I relented.

We’re only going to be here for less than a month, and in this situation Airbnb was the best option — even though we’re paying more for accommodation than we ever had before anywhere else in the world. It’s truly ridiculous what we paid, especially when apartments in Rochester can generally be had in the $850 per month range.

The kick in the balls is that this is one of the — perhaps the — worst quality Airbnb we’ve ever stayed in. The dude that runs it seems nice but doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing. The furniture looks as if it was pulled from a trash skip — the arm rests on the matching pair of sofa chairs are oily and black — the legs on the tables are in a perpetual state of falling off, the blinds over the glass doors that lead out to the balcony don’t open.

“The last Airbnb guest broke them,” the guy renting the place said, as though the fact that we rented via the same site removed him from responsibility to fix or replace them.

A few days ago a guy climbed over said balcony and scrapped paint off the roof overhang. Piles of paint chips were left all over the place. He never returned to clean up the mess.

The place is hardly even third world quality.

The irony.