We stayed at Al's place for a little over a month. Al was an incredible host. We appreciated the effort that he put into making the apartment modern, homey, and comfortable for our extended stay. We had a lot of questions and Al answered all of our questions before and during the trip. Al also gave us a cooler and beach chairs to use throughout our stay. The place was super clean and trendy.
The apartment was within walking distance to some awesome restaurants or a 5 minute Uber to the pike (restaurants & shopping). It was also a quick 30-minute drive to Huntington Beach. Outside of the property felt a bit unsafe at times. We frequently saw drug users outside of our windows throughout all times of the day, along with homeless people. Most of the time the homeless people kept to themselves, although, there were a few times where people were arguing or yelling at late hours of the night. Keep in mind that the parking and one of the entrances of the apartment is in an alley. Unfortunately, we had our backpack stolen with roughly $1,000 worth of electronics from our trunk which was left open for a few moments while we were bringing our luggage inside. There were also three occasions where there were human feces next to our car in the morning. However, the apartment itself has a large, private, locked backyard. We never felt unsafe in our apartment at any time, however, we were not super comfortable walking around outside of the apartment later at night.
Overall, downtown Long Beach had many great restaurants to explore, the airbnb had a parking spot (which is very rare), and the apartment was very comfortable.