this is the airbnb you go when you're sick and dying hello everybody and welcome back to a
man who spent more on airbnbs than the down payment would have been on the london flat
my name is evan edinger and yes uh if you're new to this channel you don't know what the
heck's going on i've been bouncing in and around different airbnbs i think four or five of them
at this point for the last four months as i wait for the london house buying process to complete
a absolutely barbaric process in this country and it has put me to some very big lows and if you're
like well evan how have you been able to afford all these freaking airbnbs what the heck is going
on well today's video is sponsored by nordvpn you'll be hearing more about them at the end of
the video but in my search for an airbnb that is acceptable and not overly expensive in one
of the most expensive cities in the country i've come across some humorous some humorous places
to say the least some accommodation that makes me go what decision was made to make this place
available and so i figured why not share it with you from a different airbnb so you can
kind of live through my pain my standard process for trying to find a place to live on here is
try and find one that does not break the bank that's a double room at least that has enough
room for me to put like lights or storage this is the smallest place i've currently stayed in since
like i lived with dodie in like 2013 or something so it's um small i would say to say the least but
it's acceptable it's in uh isle of dogs so not too bad i don't know why my jersey accent comes out
whenever i say qualified dogs here's a lovely place let's look at the first photo oh good
uh first photo you can really see what the room looks like here uh it looks like taking
a train from gatwick airport well that's fine some people want to help people that don't own phones
and can't use google maps so let's just check out the next vote all right that's a different option
you can use clapham junction if you want to be trendy oh maybe you're coming from stansted yet
again you can really feel for the for the room here with this one okay good good good i'm really
excited at this point uh having found the place found the price and oh no this one's coming from
i don't even wembley do you want to come for oh no it's actually at wembley cool and lastly
coming from heathrow okay so this person has wasted so much of my time and another one
okay can we get a photo of the room there we go and um
all that time you just spent you know you're going through it's
well they've added texture they've added some a throw there to show you that they understand
interior design when you're sleeping on this metal grate couch now you might be like oh and there's
another photo you also get a little chair and a snake plant okay this is the joys of living in
london now you might be saying evan well how much does this lovely place cost 38 pounds of nights
that's not too bad so maybe you're like hey evan that's not fair 38 pounds that's
pretty cheap is it though if i'm staying for a month you know how much that freaking costs
over a thousand pounds all right would you spend over a thousand pounds of sleep on a couch
well when your options are limited all right next up what do we got here we have stratford forest
gate two minutes to stand stead and lgbt friendly all right let's go let's see what this one looks
like all right so first photo looks like we've got croissants and a cafe latte beautiful lovely
i can't wait there's 33 photos oh here's a an interesting photo from outside of the house i'm
excited to see what the room looks like okay yet again this is the the living room conservatory
area another photo from the conservatory another photo of the garden i feel like this uh this host
is hiding something arguably the place in which i'm supposed to stay they really know how to
like draw you in right this is like a really good author of a book we've got kitchen i'm so excited
to see the room there's grass outside thank god interesting underwear advertisement on the
wall cool cool we are 21 photos in here 22 i have still not found a photo of this got some elephants
oh my god elephants more elephants give me the room give me the room give me the it's a frame
i feel like i'm going mad what is this she think this is her instagram she accidentally go to like
airbnb.co.uk and think it's their instagram it's not she's trying to sell you that image you're
like oh i'm living in stratford look at this pretty arguably okay area and you sleep on a tiny
single bed against the wall with a hard wooden chair 10 out of 10 thank you one photo of the room
uh oh no two this is the door as seen from your bed and uh 30 photos of something i don't give
a sh about cool stratford uh we'll just uh cross that one off the list i guess this one
arguably hey 33 pounds a night not too bad evan are you looking for some really cheap places it
said double it's lgbt friendly how bad could it be so i hear you evan these places are far too
cheap okay if you're gonna expect a nice place you gotta up the budget okay how about let's double
it this one's 73 pounds a night which means if i was staying here for 30 days which i've stayed at
three different four different places for 30 days each essentially this would cost me what over 2
100 pounds you bet oh well that's quite eclectic look at that interesting really good interior
design looks a bit all over the place but wow what a nice living room nice reception
oh it looks like a interesting place a lot of different seating so it's kind of like a
hostile vibe maybe uh oh all right so we've we've doubled the price and this one is a depressing
little single bed in a hallway with our slash tv too high okay i said it i'm sorry that tv is
very tiny and i'm gonna have to get on a magnifying glass for that uh but at least we have
a cute little bedside table there okay at least they sprung the five pounds to the ikea malmo much
appreciated for that 73 pounds a night would you like to go on holiday to a beautiful destination
or would you rather stay uh two to three nights at this little hell hole in kensington to be fair
they don't have many photos to take there's only two angles would you like to sleep in a hallway
now you can welcome to london 73 pounds a night 2 000 pounds a month to sleep in a hallway now
finding a place like this hopefully you understand and the last couple places
takes a lot of time now this one is arguably one of my favorites uh please stay with me here
lovely one bedroom studio in primrose hill camden because at this point i was thinking
i don't want to stay in another flat share maybe i want to spring a little bit this one was as well
73 pounds a night like i said i'm stepping up that price 2 000 pounds a month and i'm
thinking i'm gonna get my own bedroom studio in primrose hill camden that's a lovely area if you
don't know now look at this right off the bat it looks beautiful arguably though there's something
i don't know if you noticed uh have you ever seen like a serial killer documentary because
i don't know what they've done with this photo but it's almost like they had to stitch together
20 photos to make it look like it's a normal size let me just zoom in look at this look the table
is two different white balances i know i'm being a photo guy right now all right but look at the
corner what's going on here just does the floor just go away can i fall through that white gap i
hope not and you might think he's just being weird this is just a weird one no no no let me read you
the description of this room okay and let me just say if you're hosting an airbnb what's your main
goal you want to draw in some customers you want people to stay let's try and sell the place using
some hashtag marketing um so i'm gonna put my best marketing voice studio slash bedroom 1.2 the space
now has a mezzanine that's nice the room suffers from low light and is musty please confirm you are
aware of the mustiness the upstairs neighbors are elderly and so there is no noise there's a
no-noise rule at the apartment all right uh right off the bat i feel like he could have looked up
like thesaurus.com i've been like positive ways for musty just like small little single rooms are
cozy let's look at photo two maybe i could deal with it photo two that looks pretty nice arguably
again oddly stitched together i don't know what their decision making was on this but it
comes with piano i could practice a little bit studio bedroom photo one cool each photo has a
different description i always appreciate that so i can see you know more information uh the space
has a 3.5 meter high ceiling good to know the room suffers from low light and is musty please confirm
you're aware of the mustiness you could have put that in the like in the description or in photo
one this man has tried to tell me not to stay here because the mustiness in every photo description
here's a kitchen you know basic but fully equipped and solid kitchen with four gas hobs and electric
oven washing machine there's no dishwasher or microwave the doorway leads to the bathroom and
entrance halls on the right-hand side okay he didn't talk about the must here but the yellow
stains on the walls kind of tells you something 73 pounds a night mind you like i said we are not
in the cheap ones anymore this is over two grand a month for um yellow stained musty no noise elderly
neighbor place uh here we have studio bedroom photo two this space has a 3.5 high stealing
mustiness also there are extra blankets sheets and pillows i just love that even though he tried to
like talk about how to sell the place everyone he still went acknowledge the mustiness you
must acknowledge the dam oh another photo here we have the studio now has a mezzanine bed uh built
with wood as shown there's around 1.2 meters from ceiling to mezzanine okay that seems pretty okay
the sofa you see is not a fold-out sofa bed see the reason this makes me laugh so much is because
i no one had to assume that but it's almost like rather than say it's a very comfy couch he had to
like just pull away things you didn't even know so that you don't want to book the place this is not
a pull-out couch this place is not that dry if you're thinking about it there's not good light
here the bathroom is basic and small as shown it has an electric shower a bath a radiator which is
out of shot behind the door and a giraffe motif map from john lewis i i really appreciate that i
kind of wasn't thinking i was going to stay here but since he really called to action there that
they've got they've got a john lewis giraffe motif matt boyce we're going we're going to this airbnb
all right and so the last two photos here look what a lovely view this is primrose hill if you
haven't been to this part of london it is very beautiful for 2 000 pounds a month a little bit of
must complete silence no light it can be yours and you can look at this from a little walk from this
is your window this this is why there's no light it seems the studio flat is below the ground floor
accessed by walking down the steps to the right the flat suffers from low light and
the window view is obscured the flat is musty please write confirming that you understand
when making the booking this man does not want you to book this airbnb please it's almost like
a weird scheme where his mom said you gotta put it online and he said i don't want someone to
stay in my place here we have a place called the spare room that sounds nice now this one's cheap
okay i will just say it out there 28 pounds a night we're back in the cheapies and um
this is the airbnb you go when you're sick and dying uh i don't know how they've allowed this
but the hammersmith hospital has uh got a spare room for you to stay in like even the little like
hard chair in the corner that crt the tube tv there the little picture i just
this this is a hospital bed now this is a double for 28 pounds this isn't
bad okay this is about a thousand pounds a month if you'd like to stay in the hospital
i i don't think you could argue that this is anything but a hospital the selection of
just bluish white tones in everything no pillows um that's old tv from the 50s oh my god is that an
urn i think we've also got an earn just in case you die your family can just put you in there
you don't have a family that's why you're staying here hey at least it's got a pretty nice kitchen
you know that's pretty nice oh it says you don't get access to the kitchen okay thanks for
the photos appreciate it oh my god i hope you can get a little bit into my psyche and why i've been
losing my mind these last couple months of sifting through all these to try and find places to stay
i love this photo there's just some interesting energy looking at this one it almost makes me feel
like something really foreboding like the way that the the camera's vignetted it you're just looking
at this chair and i can really see myself sitting there and wanting to jump out the window there are
cozy places that you can stand up in now this one this one has some really interesting energy i just
feel like i can hear horror movie music in this first of three photos there's just something like
you sit on this chair with that really stained white towel on it you're really going to feel
like you're part of this home you know i really want to join this host and oh
that's the same room we've got a dining room hey this is you can stay in your own place
you know this this seems nice i'm not going for the cheap ones anymore i've got my own studio
with this as the living room hey let's look at the okay yet again something oddly foreboding
even the curtain is trying to get out of this house oh my god all right thank you for those
three lovely photos this was a cozy double bed in a shared house we're at 45 pounds a night that is
a thousand five hundred pounds a month for uh that that's that place which is surely haunted
we've got an estate now nothing wrong with an estate i've stayed in an estate before
and i'm currently in quite a state this one has 50 photos oh that is definitely tv too
high that is that is insulting that that is a tv way too high okay unacceptable oh my god
the photo i don't know i just feel like people upload these types of photos to airbnb trying to
sell the place but in the end they're doing the exact opposite i'm looking at this we have the
leading lines on this very poorly lit stairwell leading up to a crucifix on the wall everything's
slightly off-kilter and i just feel i'm going to need jesus if i stay here okay the whole place is
skew with using my british word of the day okay i think that's about it this place looks yet again
oh my god look at this this is what you see before the ghost pushes you down the stairwell
you know what i'm gonna have to close this uh thanks uh for that wow but this place doesn't
seem that bad uh if you haven't watched my second channel i've actually updated on
the place i stayed in liverpool that one was um interesting the stove was broken the
door was broken the wi-fi was actually fake wi-fi it was the loudest place in the world
outside there was screaming until one or two in the morning there was screaming from a meth head
banging on our door one of the last nights and to top it all off our room was right next to the
room for refuse or trash and so the whole place reeked of trash for the month i stayed so like
maybe i'm just really bad at picking places or the place i was in last week in which was uh
completely covered in moths and the owners did not acknowledge that this was a real problem and
thought like i was crazy or i just miraculously brought mods i just noticed mods or the place
before that with a passive-aggressive airbnb host who broke my key and then told me i broke the key
i don't have the best of luck now yes it was incredibly stressful to not be able to lock my
bedroom door for the four or five final days i stayed at the airbnb i was staying in rotherhive
considering i had so much film equipment in there and someone could have just broken
and stolen things and i had no feeling of real life security but also can you believe that no
router i have used at any airbnbs in the last three or four months have had any online security
built in they give you the password and they don't change the admin password so hypothetically
anyone else that's staying in this flat could look through my browsing history can
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