I do not recommend this place, especially to a lone female like myself. It was mostly men (20s-30s) in the house, luckily they seemed nice enough and they left me alone but it definitely felt uncomfortable. I feel very lucky that nothing bad happened to me at any point in the house and neighborhood, I only stayed here because I really needed a cheap place last minute for an event. I stayed 2 nights and I will tell you my experience.
My first big issue is that the owners told me a different address than the one on the listing. I don't know why they don't have the proper address on the listing but it seems very sketchy and dangerous to me. The new address isn't far from the old one so I'm not sure what the problem is. The neighborhood is not a very nice one at all, but its a cheap airbnb near downtown LA so that was to be expected. Another problem with the listing is that they claim there are lockers available in the house but I never saw them, the only place I didn't go into was the front 2 bedrooms since my room was in the back. I think the lockers should be in an obvious common space if they are actually there, but I think there just aren't any lockers.
As for the actual stay, the first thing I noticed when I got there is that the coded gate door is broken, so anybody could walk in without the code. The front door was often open, guests were usually sitting on the porch. Other guests and myself just walked into the house without needing the provided codes at all, and there was nobody to confirm that we were even meant to be staying there. I asked someone if it was really the airbnb before I walked in, I heard other guests do the same. Seriously ANYBODY could have walked in at any time, very scary. The house is also somewhat dirty, the mess is mainly just walls and doors that really need cleaning and it definitely felt gross to be there.
There are 4 "bedrooms", though my room seemed more like a small living room that they put beds into. They had removed the door from the room as well. I assume each room had 3 bunk beds like mine did. 24 potential guests? That is A LOT of people to be staying in one small house. Surprisingly, there were no issues when I needed to use the bathroom, one was always open. However, there are not many outlets available, there was only one in my bedroom for all 6 people who could stay in there. There were 2 in the kitchen and some in the hall. I obviously didn't feel comfortable just leaving my devices charging out where anybody could take them so I either had to sit near it or use the outlets in the bathroom attached to my room so I could monitor if anyone was going near my stuff.
I arrived late on my first night, ready to go to bed. But the smoke alarm in my room had low battery so it was beeping periodically. Obviously that's not ideal in an airbnb, especially when so many people have to deal with that noise. I messaged the hosts and they said they were already aware of it. I arrived back on the second night and it still wasn't fixed. I think that someone simply switched the batteries from a different smoke detector, because there was still beeping but it was in another room now. I don't know why the hosts can't just buy another battery and fix the problem for their large number of guests. We just had to try to sleep through it, my sleep was terrible because if it.
My last big problem is the parking. The airbnb does have a driveway but they do not offer parking on site. There is not a lot of street parking spots available, especially at night. I knew of this from another review but I didn't think it would be as bad as it was. I got lucky on night 1 and only had to park 1 block away near some other houses in the neighborhood. But on night 2 I had to park about 3 blocks away near a rundown building, it was the closest parking I could find. I was scared because now I had to walk about 10-15 minutes in the dark to get to the house. I know the hosts cannot control the parking of the other neighborhood residents, but they are definitely contributing to the problem by allowing so many people to stay in the house.
Overall, I would never stay at this place again. Far too many problems, and I assume there's other issues happening here during the daytime but I was only on site at night to sleep so I can't say for sure. I think the hosts should have more self-awareness about their bnb location and downsize the potential number of guests and make sure the safety measures (coded gate and front door) are implemented properly.