Our stay at Lisa's had it's ups and downs. The house is in an excellent location in Venice. Close to Abbot Kinney's shops and restaurants and close enough to walk to the beach. While Lisa herself was very friendly and accessible by phone and email, we found the house to be less accommodating. To begin with there were ants in the kitchen upon our arrival, the house was incredibly dusty and there were dirty dishes left in the dishwasher by the previous guests.

Our main issue lied in the fact that we weren't alerted until one week before our stay that Lisa's mom was staying in the back house. This is information we would have loved to be privy to when deciding to book the house. We were not bothered by her mom it was more the people visiting her mom during the day and on the weekend. There were kids playing in the backyard with toy trucks, people parking in our spot in the driveway or walking through the driveway at night unexpectedly. It felt as if we did not have the privacy we had hoped for upon booking a vacation house.