Our stay at Elena's was okay. The space is nicely decorated and clean with extra pillows and blankets. We had a few bumps on this trip including some of the accuracy of the listing. Elena knew we had folks sleeping in the pull out bed in the living room and the listing shows "portable air conditioning" as an amenity as there is no central air. When we pulled out the fold out bed from the closet, we saw the portable air conditioner which we needed as the place was already feeling pretty warm upon arrival. Unfortunately we pulled out the air conditioner and the window extension fell off the air conditioner it was wrapped around and a piece of it broke off. There was no functional window adapter so we had to stick the extension on an open window sill to use it. Later on Elena said the hinge to the back door was broken so they can to come in to fix it while we were out the following day which is when she saw that we were utilizing the portable air conditioner. She sent a message saying we were not authorized to use it which I don't believe is accurate. At no point did she say we could not use it. We ended up having to pay a fee for the broken piece. I believe a heads up should be given or she should take that out of her listing...
Next, the street is super super tight. We had a larger car for a family of 6 and it was a complete headache to get it parked every day. Elena lists 2 off-street parking spots in the listing and this is untrue because the neighbor below uses the space. It would be a nightmare to get one car, let alone two within that space. Each day, we had to coordinate with the neighbor to figure out parking. Luckily the neighbor, Carlos, was nice enough. He did mention multiple times that he can hear everything upstairs, even some snoring...
Parking on the street was also worrisome because we saw the neighbor squeeze into spaces multiple times while hitting the cars in front and back of them so we were pretty worried we would wake up to damage on our rental car.
Lastly, there was a stray cat in the back common space. Multiple people feed it every day and the neighbor said to not touch it as it was diseased... A couple people in our party are highly allergic to cats so we could not utilize the common space. The cat would wait next to the back door all day and meow. If you opened the door, it tries running inside. I know this isn't fully in Elena's control but thought I would note it as it was a turn off for us.
Other than that, the kitchen was nicely equipped and the bathroom was a decent size. You do have to access the bathroom and kitchen through either of the bedrooms so there's not complete privacy if you're utilizing the pull out bed.