Noise.
All windows and doors leading to the street are old and not sealed. Cars, motorcycles, drunks, and quarrel screams all 24 hours.
In the adjacent building, people like to on loud bass sound late evening, laugh, and party.
The building fully covered with glass is where the house looks inward. Glass reflects all sounds into the inner 2nd-floor bedroom.
Smells.
Workers tend to sit down on the porch and smoke tobacco. Doors are not sealed, and all smell gets into the hall and kitchen.
In the adjacent building with the adjacent balcony, neighborhoods smoke weed, and the smell gets into the inner second-floor bedroom.
Something wrong with the canalization and a very bad smell in the central second-floor bathroom. It gets down to the hall and kitchen. Also, the hall has uncomfortably high humidity.
Insects.
Once ants hoards started to visit flat. There are five routes where they reach. 2 holes in the floor, one in the ceiling, and two high at a window and above the wall.
You cannot leave anything in the kitchen for more than an hour as they come. Ants spread quite some decesaes and make the kitchen unusable. The landlord suggested fighting them on his own (which, as I read the contract, is not what is supposed to happen).
Likely ants for abandoned garden near.
The landlord was aware of the problem but did not prepare hosts for that.
Garbage.
Garbage is not taken away for weeks. It smells really bad.
Way to garbage is one person wide. Sometimes somebody puts their motorcycle on the way, and you just cannot throw away garbage at all.
Water.
Once all water disappeared without any notification so we could not be prepared. It was when we already had hoards of ants. It took more than 20+ hours to be fixed. We have to go to our friends to stay and wash.
Communicaiton.
We have some misunderstandings with the landlord about expectations and leave dates. I had to spend time resolving these.
Transparency.
The kitchen and hall have all transparent windows, wall size, so hard to feel cozy.
Opinion.
If you want to relax in the house or do some long-term stay, this place is not for you.
LANDLORD'S REPLY:
Our first guests at Rua do Bom Jesus were Dzmitry and his family.
Dzmitry left an extensive review identifying several improvements that we had the opportunity to do after his check-out. He also pointed out some circumstantial issues that were mainly related with major City Council works to repave the street in front of the house that were taking place during his stay. These works finished in the first week of August, so noise, smells, garbage, water cuts and insects are not a problem at the moment.
The house is superbly located in the city center, it is a busy street during the day, but normally quiet in the evening and night.