We booked Alicia and Matt's apartment for two months, but only ended up staying for about 2 weeks.
I'll first summarize the positive aspects of our stay. The location of the apartment is great. Literally a block from all the Sunset Strip glamour and a block in the other direction is Santa Monica Blvd with all the restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bars, gay nightlife, etc. Sounds like a busy area, but the building is on a lush street that's pleasant to walk on.
The building itself seems well-maintained, feels very secure and highlights were the rooftop with views. The pool is nice, not necessarily heated? But, serves well for a nice plunge - it's surrounded by other apartments, so you can't be too loud and not much privacy.
The apartment looks like the photos in the listing, but what you can't see is there really isn't a view or much direct sunlight into the space. The view outside the dining room is of the inner courtyard from the second floor. The kitchen, although having ample counter space to prep on, is a little awkward. The two burners are so close to each other that you can't heat more than one pan at a time. The grill sitch next to the burners is novel, but the hood isn't really powerful enough to capture most of the smoke it creates, so we only used it twice. The fridge is a basically a mini fridge and so is the freezer - so we weren't really able to stock up on much of anything. The oven works well. The dishwasher is a smaller dishwasher and worked so-so for us.
For some reason the tv/cable/sound situation is very sensitive and probably should be updated. Matt had to come over one afternoon for several hours to "fix" it. Alicia offered a generous credit for that.
The parking permit for the street we were given was expired so we got a parking ticket one evening. Alicia did pay it promptly and the building manager acquired us weekly street passes until we moved out. Overall parking is easy though because you have a spot in the building.
We stayed there in June 2022 and the bedroom stayed pretty hot. There was only a floor fan in in bedroom to circulate air. There is an ac-unit is in the living area which makes that room and kitchen/dining area cool, but unfortunately isn't powerful enough to cool the bedroom entirely on hot days. Because of the heat in the bedroom there were night we had to take turns sleeping on the sofa.
The bedroom has ample closet space and a king bed, but we found it to be too soft, causing us to have several nights of bad sleep and eventual back pain throughout the days. At first we thought we could get used to the softness, but after a couple weeks of not even be able to sleep side by side (the bed would concave in the middle causing to fall into each other) we realized it was just uncomfortable and perhaps old and needed to be replaced. We're not bed experts, but something is just too soft about the bed and we highly recommend not booking here if you're at all sensitive to this.
In an another review, we noticed a guest mentioned the softness of the bed and Alicia said she would replace it "pronto", but it's our assumption it wasn't replaced.
We called Alicia to let her know about our pains and over the phone she was cordial, said she would replace it in "two days", but instead she contacted AirBNB about getting us to move out sooner than our reservation was for - this blindsided us and put us in a difficult situation to find housing for the rest of our stay in Los Angeles.
AirBNB contacted us about our having to move out. They told us Alicia thought it was unreasonable to ask her to remedy the mattress situation - which is wild, because a good night's sleep is a very basic thing a host should want their guests to have. She also could have just told us no directly.
Alicia also told Airbnb we violated the pet policy by bringing an "unauthorized pet." This was demonstrably false. We had an official message thread on here about our dog, her fellow chihuahuas, filled out a building application for our dog and Matt even met our dog in the first few days when he came to work on the TV. I assume they told Airbnb this in order to have a reason to kick us out after we asked about the mattress.
It seems like Alicia and Matt are good hosts if you don't ask for too much. But, seriously, after three days, my back still hurts from their mattress and I wouldn't recommend staying here just based on that - let alone Alicia's strange behavior towards the end of our stay.