Unfortunately, we had an overwhelmingly disappointing stay at David's, which was a bit of shock as there were many good reviews for his place. The location is wonderful, but that's the only good thing I can say about it in it's current state:
-- First, the check-in is listed as "flexible", but David's response to our check in request was "I work during the week, so the earliest I can check you in is 6pm" he refused to have a friend do it, or leave the key somewhere safe.
-- He also misrepresented several things he said he mentioned in his listing, which were not written there and I pointed this out to him several times. I'm not sure he's actually read his listing since he wrote it. He asked if we read the house rules on three different occasions and required that we would send photos of ourselves. The house rules are also quite over the top, borderline paranoia.
-- The house says it has air conditioning which was a major requirement for us since we were staying for one month and it was August, but in reality there is a window unit in the bedroom which can only cool the bedroom and has no effect on the rest of the house which was absolutely sweltering hot.
-- Many things in the house were different than pictured - dark curtains (pictured as white), black shower curtain (pictured as white), missing things from the back patio and kitchen that were pictured.
-- no wifi... yes it says that in the listing, but wifi is not something one would ever imagine you'd have to think about when renting an airbnb in los angeles. My airbnbs in extremely remote villages had wifi. It makes no sense.
-- I'm pretty sure this is a full time airbnb, not someone's home - so it would be nice if there was less clutter and random junk. It's a small house already, i could feel much better if it was pared down.
-- kitchen came with no trash bags, no salt/pepper, no dish soap, but did have old boxes of cereal and random old bits of food in the fridge and cabinets.
We would have loved to leave, but finding another airbnb for a month at the last minute and trying to convince someone like David to let us cancel would have been nearly impossible. When I mentioned to AirBnB they asked for photos to back up our claim. Sorry I forgot to take a picture of a thermometer... If you need a place for a weekend, go for it, but any longer than that - stay away.