I came here for 9 weeks to study at an art academy in old town Pasadena. I loved being so close to a nature trail and was out there running every day I could. It was a beautiful pocket of LA away from the noise and cars. The train station is a 25 minute walk away and safe to walk late at night too. The bed was very cosy and all advertised amenities were provided. However my review is going to echo what appears to be some of the other long term stays in this room. My stay started off pleasant but it ended up being a rather stressful experience. Over the course of my stay, Emrick would mistakingly accuse me of many things. The accusations were frequent, it was sometimes an honest mistake on my part but most I wasn’t responsible for at all. Everything from clogging the upstairs bathroom sink when I only used the shower there and brushed my teeth downstairs, leaving rubbish in the wrong place, using their blender, short circuiting the power, or feeding their dog when I was studying outside and had no food or drink with me. They kept very stringent rules on both me and other guest to keep the plates and utensils clean to prevent ‘bugs’. Which I understand and appreciate in a communal kitchen space, and we both complied with them and would clean up after ourselves and wipe down the counter tops. Yet throughout my entire stay they were ones leaving quite dirty plates out in a communal space for often days at a time. There was more than one occasion where there were so many used dirty plates, pans and cutlery on the counter tops I just ended up cleaning up everything so I’d having something to cook and eat with. I would always correct my behaviour immediately if I had slipped up on a house rule or been requested something, and endeavoured to be considerate and tidy as I normally do during any Airbnb stay. So to be consistently accused of things I didn’t do despite being on my absolute best behaviour started to become exasperating towards the end of my 9 week stay to say the least. I did mess up quite badly once, there was a pan lid in the bottom of the oven I didn’t take out when I was cooking and I damaged the handle and I do sincerely apologise for that At the halfway mark in my stay, there was a power outage while I was using the microwave in the kitchen. Emrick got very angry the first time when it happened twice in one day. Some of the anger was directed at me because he believed both times it had happened because I was using ‘too many appliances at once’ or had my heater on a high setting. Neither of these things were true and I only had the microwave on. It happened a few more times and I kept copping the blame for what was clearly old wiring being affected by water (as the upstairs bathroom would frequently have the lights turn off if it got too humid and LA was having some of its heaviest rainfall in years during my stay) Every time I would be getting shamed from anything from using the microwave on a “high setting” (it doesn’t have a high setting) or that I was using too many appliances at once and it was affecting how their printer and computer worked? When in reality I was getting so worried and didn’t want to get shouted at again I would go to the lengths of turning off and unplugging everything in my room and the kitchen before using the microwave and gave up using the toaster altogether. A man twice my height slamming doors and yelling at full volume around the house after the power short circuited the second time was quite a nerve wracking experience and left me physically shaking. Right after this, he told me I wasn’t allowed in the house the next day from 4:30-7pm. If I was someone who was new to the city and didn’t have friends in LA to go to this would be a very unfair situation to put a guest in. I was quite scared of him after that and just stayed in my room or at friends’ places as much as possible. The other housemate and I were also booted out when a film crew took over the entire house from 10am till 10pm one day. We were given ample warning, but if I didn’t have a friends’ place I could stay at it would’ve been quiet difficult to navigate. Finally, There was also multiple instances during my stay when I walked into the kitchen in the morning to find they were heating the room by turning all the gas coils on the stovetop on, which is incredibly dangerous! I was too scared to say anything so I usually just left the house as quickly as I could to avoid breathing in the carbon monoxide which you could smell quite strongly. I can recommend a shorter term stay, but couldn’t in good faith recommend a longer one in the style that I was doing. Ie: involving a lot of studying at home during most weekdays. I can tell Emrick has a very direct manner and doesn’t suffer fools, but theres a difference between that and being harsh towards a guest, which was a line I felt he crossed frequently with me. I haven’t written this review lightly and tried be as level headed as possible In my assessment. In the calmer moments it was a lovely stay, but I do want to be honest about some of the drawbacks of the experience for future tenants. Particularly the whole incident with the power outage and how unsafe I felt around Emrick following is something I wouldn’t want anyone else going through. I stay in about 2-3 Airbnb’s a year...