The Echo Park location and outdoor space is fabulous. The ‘welcome’ directions were very clear. The bed is comfortable. The broadband was plenty fast. The good: This is a charming apartment well-designed during its last update. The not so good: The washer spin cycle does not work (clothes drip despite 2 spin cycles) and the dryer was broken when we arrived. I asked when we could expect a dryer. I was offered a $20 laundry card. I said I would prefer a working dryer. One came 2 weeks later. The owner has hired a company called VRHost to manage the rental. That’s who you’ll be communicating with. This might be very common now but this was my first time communicating with a company not a person. And while the bedroom linens and bathroom surfaces were clean when we arrived, the rest of the apartment surfaces were really gross: grimy floor, handprints on drawer fronts and door jambs, three-dimensional dust and debris on baseboards and counters, dangling dust on ceilings. I was offered a $120 ‘credit’ so I could hire someone to clean it. I declined and asked them to give us a clean slate. They sent a cleaning person a few days later. All kitchen linens had stains. Some bathroom linens had stains. And the vacuum did not work.