Kristin and Chris are great hosts and gave us much comfort. After a long trip from Europe Chris offered us a ride into the city so we can get something to eat at night. The free bikes are absolutely perfect (you even get a detailed map with the best unhilly way down to the beach).
The room is very small and therefore from our European point-of-view too expensive (but everything seems quite expensive nowadays with the bad Euro-rate!) nevertheless we had a coffee machine and some very small breakfast the first morning!
Personal tip: Skip Venice Beach, go to the other direction at Redondo and so on!
All the best!!!!!