This place is not great. Normally I wouldn’t be this harsh, but for 4k+/mo it’s just crazy. I feel dramatic but honestly I feel duped by other positive reviews. I ended up canceling early and just eating the cost.
The pros of this place are: good location and beautiful weather. The property manager, darla (who is not the host) was wonderful and responsive.
The cons:
- very loud and unsafe environment. This unit overlooks a beach parking lot (images do not make this clear). There are homeless people screaming all night, people blasting music/partying til 2am, constant loud cars/motorcycles right outside the window. I had a neighbor walk her to her apartment because there was a vagrant in her building. I heard another complaining about their car being broken in. There’s outdoor chairs and tables that are essentially a small homeless village right outside the front door.
- Paper thin floor. You can hear everything from the downstairs unit.
- uncomfortable parking situation. There are two parking lots. One is private to the surrounding building and feels okay, the other is the beach parking lot. The private lot is constantly full and you feel like you can’t use your car or you lose your spot. The beach parking lot is very chaotic/unpredictable and feels unsafe for overnight parking. On the weekends if you leave you won’t get a spot in either lot during the day. There’s no where else to park within a half mile.
- very poor checkin. I reached out day before, got no response, and was left waiting 2.5 hours after checkin while I was trying to cancel with airbnb. Host was not very understanding and was very defensive even though they were at fault. Only offered a laundry card.
- laundry card was basically useless since two of the three machines were broken and the other was always occupied.
- place is cheaply built visibly falling apart. The vanity in bathroom moves, the trimming is fully separating in the kitchen. There’s stains all over the curtains. There’s a really sketch open “window” that opens to some internal dark shaft in the bathroom with no screen on it. The bathtub is rusted and faucets are not even aligned. You hear pipes rumbling from high pressure. The fire alarm went off in the middle of the night for no reason.
- no where to work/eat/hangout except for the bed. The one desk/table is hilariously bad and cheap. You can only sit on the rounded edges and the chairs have insanely sharp which dig into your legs. In general all the amenities were poor quality.
- basically no counter space. The few times I attempted to cook, I realized how hard it is to cook with 1 square foot of counter space. I resorted to eating out pretty much every meal.
- low quality stuff. Pans are scraped and warped, cheap knives, garbage disposal was broken. The shower curtain is dirty and barely stays up. Normally I really don’t care about this stuff, but for 4k! Come on!
I could keep going but you get the idea. I’d look elsewhere.