I have stayed in a number of Airbnb apartments, from Phoenix, to Durham, to Paris and Rome. They generally fall into one of two categories: thoughtfully-furnished and outfitted or stripped-down income producing property. Mary’s apartment was in the latter category.
The positives: good location and fairly priced for the Santa Monica market. The negatives: the parking space is a 3 stories below the lobby with no elevator; the apartment is the height of sterility (no rugs, no list of local coffee shops or stores, Ikea furnishings, etc); and the owner was not available at checkin.
I would bring ear plugs as the bedroom is on the second floor above a commercial street (for perspective we live in Manhattan so are used to noise). Also note that the building elevator had been broken for “2-3 weeks” prior to our stay, but Mary only told us this the morning of our arrival. Fortunately, not a problem for us.