A'right... as I'm here on the forums tonight, allow me to try to describe the "3BR" I am currently in.
Let's start with $135/night in a tourist/university town, which is a good deal for a 3BR booked 3 weeks in advance here, but not a great price 2 months out FWIW. (This is for those who ask "do you book things too cheap?" crowd).
Actual layout: shotgun on first floor, with rooms on left and a hallway for the building (access to 4 floors including half-levels) on the right.
First floor shotgun: bedroom -- kitchen -- bedroom -- bath. You can also go through the hallway to the bath; thus, the front bedroom must go through the back / second bedroom to get to the bath, or out to the hallway.
Third bedroom is on the half-level up the stairs; thus, must be accessed through the hall/stairwell shared by all the building, and must come down the stairs to use the bath, and go through one or the the other bedroom to get to the kitchen.
None of the above layout / limitations is at all clear from staged pictures, or at all clear from description.
To boot: there is only one key for each level, and the locks require a key on either side / doors do not lock without a key from either side. This means that it is impossible for one person to leave if someone is sleeping, without either leaving the doors open or locking someone inside; etc.
I'm not sure what to make of this, but it strikes me as far from a 3BR. Having to go through a space shared by others in the building from 1-2 of the bedrooms is just odd. Perhaps it is a 2 & 2 1/2 bedroom, or such. Airbnb isn't really set up for such a situation; but I feel if you have something like this, you have to explain up front in the top of the description, not hide it and let people find out when they get there.
It is otherwise great in many ways, but there's a feeling that I paid a bit of a penny, and didn't get what I paid for.
Otherwise, I didn't label this as a WWYD "What Would You Do," but am interested in ideas on how other hosts might title or describe such a listing.
I'm also often an easy rater in the end-- tempting to leave a 5 and mostly 5s because outside the layout, most is good here-- but before I leave a review, someone here might convince me to be harsher.
