This one was a slog for my one-month stay. I would strongly suggest looking elsewhere and only staying if in an absolute pinch, as I was.
Pros:
- Normally fairly quiet late night to early morning – great for sleeping. This was probably the most important thing to me, so I did appreciate it.
- Bed was fine (on firm side, for those who care).
- Wifi was mostly good.
Cons:
- I don't really understand the approach here, because you're discouraged from a long stay, implicitly with the set-up and via their policies, and yet it doesn't make much sense for short-term (it's a hassle, and actually significantly smaller than a hotel room!). Even if you need to rent a room only or pay a bit more.
- 'Tiny house' is extremely misleading: this is in fact an addition to a house (I should have looked more closely at the photos).
- Outside of the bed, it is one of the most physically uncomfortable places I have ever stayed in. Literally the only place to sit is a strange tiny loveseat that feels like torture. There is no proper table or desk, and that's pretty much it. You are paying for a space that is really only designed for sleep and nothing more.
- Without the separation of a 'house', your shared wall with what is effectively the other apartment means quite a bit of noise and commotion at certain hours of the day through that wall.
- At times, it was quiet, but other noise would also not infrequently burst out of nowhere and stay for hours – booming bass, yelling kids, etc. You are actually squeezed in amongst apartment buildings and exposed to all their windows and activity.
- To be clear, I think the area is very safe. However, it is visually depressing – and I'm talking broken-down, spray-painted trucks/ vans parked in front of the gate, piles of trash there that never moved, and so on. It's a bad location for those without a car, but if you do have a car, you will need to find a spot on the street, as the ones inside the gate were always occupied.
- Getting in and out was a hassle – the overgrown hedges, two gates and a door, gnarly mess of a sidewalk and trash, and non-lighting keypad were not fun to navigate.
- About as bare bones as you will ever find for a 'house' – I got them to put a microwave in and bought my own plate and left it, so there's that. When I arrived, there was little more than plastic cups and bowls.
- The washing machine was broken for part of my stay, and even when it 'worked', the hot and cold were reversed, which the owners knew but don't tell you? This means it is difficult to wash anything in other than boiling hot water, even when it is working, so beware. (All it would take is a wrench and 5 minutes to fix, so the fact that even when the washer was repaired this was not done is simply as reflection of the priorities here.)
- Even with the crazy prices these days, you are really not getting good value for $2400/ month with fees. As for the cleaning fee, I know we all understand that is a farce these days, but it still feels insulting to be charged a hefty 'cleaning fee' when the place is NOT well cleaned – and I am not just talking about the dust on the floor or in the bowls or the nasty sponge: I implore you not to look under the bed or drop anything under there!
As you can see, I found this place baffling. It will never be a beautiful house or 'yard' or be in a desirable neighborhood, but just a small amount of tender loving care and a couple hundred bucks of investments *might* make this a reasonable value for some people in a pinch... it's just not a priority for the owners.