We loved to stay at Steven's place. The location provides many opportunities (beach, Venice pier, Venice ocean front walk, superb restaurants on Washington) without needing a car ride.
The clean apartment is also well equipped (washer, dryer, many tools in the kitchen, TV+DVR) which makes live easy. We had some trouble with the washer but unit it was fixed, Steven provided us a good alternative for our laundry! There also many other things in the house (BBQ grill, beach chairs, bodyboards, volleyballs, etc.) which can be shared with the other tenants of the house (which was always easy).
We highly recommend to stay at this place!