Rollanda's house is 106 years old. wonderful home, stylistically. I stayed about 3 months. The issues: The door to my room(sliding door) had no lock. I have valuable things and had no way to secure them. the bathroom is shared, with one door from my room, and the other side of the bathroom has another door leading to another renters' room. That renter would lock both doors when using the bathroom,and forget to unlock my door, and I would repeatedly have to walk around and knock on his door to ask him to unlock the bathroom. In addition, that renter had a nasty habit of leaving feces in the toilet. this happened several times. Rollanda did fix the bathroom issue by changing the locks on the bathroom doors.
Cleanliness: Not great. the common areas of the home were rarely cleaned, except when I cleaned them. The microwave had months-old caked food. the other renter repeatedly left dishes in the sink, and occasionally food out on the kitchen counters. I never cooked there because I did not feel comfortable doing so.
Parking: Initially Rollanda warned me to only park in her driveway, and said parking in the neighborhood was bad(it is), but she neglected to warn me she had a family member also using the(one car) driveway, meaning we constantly had to do the whole "can you move your car" thing, until I finally got frustrated and started parking on the street anyway. got nailed for a $93 parking ticket.
Interactions: Rollanda has several family members who would frequent the house. One time her niece came over to get some mail, and started giving me a lot of attitude, basically speaking to me like I was the "house manager" and employee of the family. I set her straight, but it was a very nasty conversation. I had a couple of tense conversations with the other renter about feces in the toilet. And, one rather tense conversation with the other guy parking in the driveway.
Neighborhood: decent, lots of stores around, pretty close to DTLA. right next to the 10 freeway. No issues with crime that I saw.
Communication with host: Not great. I'll leave it at that.