As this is one of the first reviews of this place we decided to provide more details than usual. We stayed for 35 days in December-January.
Pro
-central location, short drive to Hollywood, downtown, Korea town, Pasadena, etc.
-secured covered parking
-Spacious, about 800 sf?
-Fast internet (in living room)
-Lots of bright lights everywhere in the unit
-Host and building manager are responsive (responds to queries within 1 hour)
Con
-not clean, dusty, spiderwebs, some insects (caught 3 live spiders in the bedroom in first week)
-Thin walls, can hear neighbors talk and practice guitar
-Parking spot narrow and hard to park (we have an suv so should be easier for sedans)
-Cracked walls (host said is due to earthquakes), heater not working (didn’t ask to fix it due to covid), cracked tiles in kitchen
-No tables for work
-Internet drops every 2 minutes in bedroom and cannot move router (it’s not in the room)
-The cleaning ladies came into the unit before the check out time before we finished packing and doing one last sweep.
Others
-neighbors - two of the downstairs neighbors have dogs and may bark at you when you pass by. Sometimes smell smoke/weed in the hallways, sometimes music sounds. Looks like half of these ~20 units in the building are used for Airbnb’s or equivalent.
-There is a pool in the middle of the building that is shared in the building. It is cleaned once a week and in the 35 days I am here (during December/ January) did not see anyone use it.
-The parking garage remote and necessary keys were not in the unit when check in at 4pm as per instructions (for contactless check in during covid). Had to wait until 11pm for building manager to get those to us on the first day. Luckily there is street parking.
-This is corner unit (bedroom is the corner) and can hear cars come by and garbage trucks etc. each room has at least one window so plenty of light. -Shared laundry room is in the basement 2 washers $2 each (takes quarters only) and 2 dryers $1.5 each.