We had a 2 month stay and everything seemed great at first: clean building, unit comes with a big shower and its own dishes, Alexio might congratulate you on making your 2000 mile drive to your new state with some wine... but then you start to notice things. Things like Alexio lurks and watches all day. The walls are paper thin and you hear everyone in the building and the traffic outside always, a nightmare for light sleepers. The mattress is super firm and likes to constantly slide off the frame. There's often gnats, spiders, or one time even a roach in the room and you don't know where they're appearing from. When you want that shower to wash off the heat of the LA day you'll find frequently that there is no hot water. The whole building shares everything. Yes, all units are controlled by one thermostat in the hall, I assume one water heater, one lack luster internet package, and you share one washer and dryer with everyone and Alexio's apartment next door.
You hear every step, every toilet flush, people slamming the doors coming and going at all hours of the night. We could never get the wifi to connect to any of our devices and it would disconnect from the tv often, making streaming frustrating- we didn't want to have to ask to restart the router and disrupt the whole building and just used our mobile data. It was so much faster anyway. You have to be ready to devote time to checking to see if laundry is available or if the hot water kicks on before you commit to the shower. The AC does not work well which is a must for the heat here. Since it's shared you'll find it off or on heat a lot, and to get it to work in your room you'll have to stand there with your door open to release the weird suction from the hall until you hear it coming through the vent in your unit. Remain like that until room has cooled off.
Then there's the parking and Alexio's attitude about it, the main reason for my negative review. The listing states "private parking" and "free parking on premises." My husband and I are in the process of moving here permanently and drove each of our vehicles from Ohio. There are five spots behind the building, and two side streets that are accessible you can park on. Or a business's lot next door, but you may only park there after 6 pm and you have to move before 8 am at the risk of being towed. The five spots are full, that never changes. The streets are full, because they are lined with apartments and hundreds of people trying to find a spot. If you are out late exploring or, in my case, working a new job and you come home after 5 pm good luck. You're walking from God-knows-where in the dark alone after driving in circles for 20 minutes. More often than not one or both of our cars are not in one of the five spots. You learn fast its first come, first serve. After TWO months of the parking game we come back one day- my car in a spot behind the building- and we happen upon a second open spot. Yay! We pull in and can't even get out of our car before Alexio is outside leaning against our car telling my husband that we need to be courteous and share spots more and can't park there. That the side streets have free parking, the parking officers don't pay attention to meters, it's EASY to find other spots. He was basically accusing us of hogging, because there are 7 units and Alexio and only five spots. He tells us the listing says one spot per unit you can't have two cars. It does not state that anywhere. We know he watches, he's even told us he sits and watches his security cameras, so he should know that the previous week my car was nowhere around. We think he jumped down our throat because for my day off my car didn't move and my husband was about to pull in Alexio's favorite spot. It was very confrontational and rude and left a bad taste in our mouth. Thankfully we left shortly after, because then I had anxiety every time I left the room that I'd be cornered by him again because he is always around, watching.
In summary- this place is great for one person staying briefly, if you have one compact car and want to play a fun game of do-they-write-tickets-for-parking-wherever, an awesome data plan with a hot spot, and are a super heavy sleeper that likes hot air and cold showers. However, if you want to use the space as extended stay as happily advertised... Personally I wouldn't ever again spend over five grand for two months of "rent" for a 200 sqft space with no privacy, no parking, limited wifi, almost no AC, and a property owner that watches your every move.