The good:
-Awesome building with great amenities: community room was so beautiful, 2-level gym was well-equipped, roof-top pool and hot tub were our favorite. Very secure building, I felt safe once inside.
-Apartment was clean, great views, comfortable bed, but small-wish they had a king-size bed. Quiet condo, couldn’t hear neighbors.
-Close access to freeways
-Owner was courteous and very responsive to my messages.
The Bad:
-The advertised address is totally misleading. Listing says the condo is in Glendale, but it’s NOT. It’s actually in downtown LA with a totally different address than advertised. Glendale is a beautiful neighborhood and upscale. Downtown LA is dirty and not upscale. I called the owner about this and she said that Airbnb can’t fix the address-why can’t they fix it and make it accurate?!
-Dirty neighborhood during the night with tons of homeless people camping out in tents and on the sidewalks. There was trash everywhere! I felt very unsafe.
-Check-in was a total headache. There’s a code the open the main doors, then the elevator, then inside the elevator, and then the condo. It was very confusing what to do at first. Took us a good half-hour to figure it out and check in, and at one point, we were stuck in the elevator for 5 min, because the code didn’t work.
-You HAVE TO rent a parking spot, which costs extra. There is no street parking. There are 2 parking garages. Owner did not specify which garage to go into, so we ended up in the wrong garage and couldn’t find our spot.
-Kitchen is
ill-equipped for cooking. Bare minimum utensils and supplies. You’ll have to buy all the staples: oil, salt/pepper, etc, if you want to cook.
No paper towels or kitchen hand towels.
-First thing you’ll walk into is the wall of condense air freshener smell. It gave us all a headache.