We stayed at Alix' place to see Santa Monica and the nearby Venice area better. Will start with the good: Location. It really is all in the listing 'Super Venice Location' About 10 minutes walk from the beach, some nice coffee shops in the Venice area too. And the not so good: * After arriving and using the bathroom (not number twos) and flushing the toilet, was greeted with a blocked toilet which subsequently overflowed somewhat onto the floor. Messaged the host about this but didn't receive a reply till about 6-7 hours later when we were asleep. The smell was horrendous so I spent the first hour in this Airbnb unblocking a toilet and cleaning up a previous guest's waste. Not a great start. There is a sticker about not flushing wipes etc. in the toilet as it will clog the old pipes, so perhaps this has been a repeat issue for other guests. * Aside from the above toilet issues, the place has a very strong musty smell in general, even with all the windows open. It seems to come from the washing machine area. * WiFi is slow and barely usable, and when you find a WiFi signal that works, drops out after a few minutes. Unplugged the booster in the room a few times but didn't help much, tried the other WiFi names to no avail either. Ended up just using roaming phone data. An ethernet cable run from the main Router in the front of the house to a Router at the back would solve this issue. * Stomping footsteps on occasion coming from upstairs on our last night, there is a more permenant guest living in the space above from what I understand. * I should have listed this point first, extremely poor maintenance of this Airbnb listing in general - many things are old and falling apart, but it appears that instead of fixing the issues - there are simply stickers on the wall telling you to work around them - e.g: One side of the shower door in the bathroom comes off of the rails, so you must climb over the toilet to get into the shower awkwardly and use the non-broken shower door. Based on previous reviews, this has not been fixed for over three years. And the finale, the morning we went to checkout - we noticed a clothes bag we left on a shelf in the cupboard had hundreds of ants running through it. So, we spend the next few hours washing and drying our clothes to hopefully get rid of the ants. On closer inspection we realised there were quite a lot of ants running through this place. I suppose this can happen with older homes but it didn't seem that any preventative measures were taken inside to ward off/kill the ants, there might be a nest somewhere nearby. In summary: If this Airbnb was taken offline for a few days, some basic maintenance/touch-up work done and the...