The property is described. It has a nice airy feel, pretty garden with a barbeque pit (rules are that this has to be turned off at 10.00 pm which is a bit of a shame).
What isn't mentioned in the listing, is that the property is literally 5 minutes from Santa Monica Airport. The first day we were at the property was very windy, so we didn't notice the noise. But for the rest of our stay, the number of flights and subsequent noise really picked up. Santa Monica airport allow flights from 7.00 am until 11.00 pm week days, and 8.00 am until 11.00 pm weekends. My husband normally sleeps through anything, but the planes woke us all up (kids included) at 7.00 am sharp. By about 9.00 am, the planes are relentless, approximatelye every 5 minutes and most of the time fly right over the house. As they are small airplanes, it literally sounded like you were in some kind of WW2 bombing raid, it was so noisy. I can't pretend this didn't impact the enjoyability of our stay as it did.
The landlord was very accomodating, and the fact that he is attached to the house didn't really impact this, although we did try to be extra quiet as there is an internal door literally leading from the kitchen to his apartment (they put a bookcase over this and he didn't use this once checked in). Dylan kindly let us put some groceries in the kitchen before the 4.00 pm check in time, and also let us stay an hour later for check out so was certainly accomodating. But the locality of the local airport was an issue for us. For others, it may not be.