I stayed here for 2 months. Though my time in LA was great, my experience with this airbnb was a very mixed bag.
I'll start with the good. As advertised, it was very clean! The bedding was all new and the mattress itself felt good quality for the price point of the room. The patio was small but a nice way to get some air at the end of the night. With the AC, the temperature of the apartment was also always nice, even on hot days. Be warned: the door is a curtain, but the wall of the bedroom is also just a piece of laminate stapled to the back of a bookshelf. So you can't really make noise without everyone hearing you, but...well you get what you pay for. And overall, compared to the other rooms around this price point, this felt like great value.
Though it's probably a great place for a short term stay if that's what you're looking for, several factors made my long term stay a less than ideal experience.
For one, the apartment was frankly a bit janky. The living room was furnished as sparsely as possible, and the "fully furnished" kitchen was still missing basics like dish towels, a mixing bowl, or a cooking knife. Since I was going to be cooking most of my meals, I ended up buying like $100 worth of cheap kitchenware from Target. I definitely noticed the occasional roach. Several times throughout the stay, water would leak from the bathroom ceiling. It'd get "fixed," but then leak a few weeks later; we got used to keeping a bucket on the toilet, under the leak. Appliances were also iffy – the fridge would leak a fair bit of water every 2-3 days, requiring you to wipe down the floor.
The appliance problem that frustrated me the most was that the shower was out of commission for the first two and a half weeks of my stay, which I wasn't informed of until check in. Thankfully, my roommate in the master bedroom allowed us to use her shower, but again – just something that wasn't actually as advertised, and an unpleasant surprise to move in to.
To be honest, the largest problem I had with the stay was the host himself. I can't say that I got to know Alexander super well. He might be a good guy who just has a real awkward manner. But I found basically every interaction we had to be at minimum strained, and at worst incredibly stressful and uncomfortable. This came to a head within the first week.
To make a long story short, myself or my housemate clogged the kitchen sink, which began rising in water level. We spent the evening bailing out the sink, and eventually called Alex for fear that the sink would overflow while we were sleeping, doing water damage to the property (which surely he would not be happy about either). When we casually asked if he would consider calling an 24 hour plumber, the night spiraled into a standoff between Alexander, myself, and my housemate. It was like a switch flipped – at first, we were just confused, since it seemed so out of the blue. He acted offended, passive aggressive, accused us of "unionizing against him," and essentially demanded that we apologize for being so rude as to call him after hours, among other ridiculous things. He was also very misogynistic to my housemate, constantly dismissing her and interrupting her to "watch her tone" – though we were both speaking in the exact same measured & quiet voice. That night was so stressful for my housemate that she ended up breaking her lease, moving out with more than a month left on her stay. I didn't feel so scared as to move out, but it was a truly unpleasant and nerve-wracking night, to say the least.
Other interactions, while not as intense, were still strange. For example, he was weirdly aggressive about us not interacting with handymen who came to fix the shower etc. One time, the handyman told me about the schedule for the shower fix – just because that's a normal thing for them to do if someone's home, right? I relayed this info to Alexander, who then got angry over text about how I "broke the rule." I found it really bizarre – I didn't even try to engage with the handyman, I just happened to be sitting in the living room as he was leaving! After that, it felt like Alex was almost trying to "test" me when he texted after handyman visits, trying to get me to trip up and admit I was talking to them (of course, I was 100% compliant after that, and shut down any attempts even at small talk).
Overall, I felt like I was always a little on edge whenever the host was over. Thankfully, this became less frequent after the first couple weeks. And with a working shower, I ultimately found myself enjoying my stay (hence 3 stars, despite the complaints). However, I felt like I was often having a great time more in spite of the apartment and the host, than because of them.