Tony's Airbnb rental has much to offer the traveller who wants to be West Hollywood. There are many great aspects to the rental, and a couple of small issues.
First, the great parts: (1) fantastic location, on a beautiful tree-lined residential street, 2 blocks from a wonderful cafe (Urth Melrose); (2) well-equipped room; (3) super-comfortable bed w/memory foam topper; (4) private patio; (5) Tony responds quickly to email or phone requests for assistance.
The less than perfect parts: (1) there is a shared wall between the rental and Tony's side with very little sound insulation; we could hear his phone ring and conversations, and the occasional barking of his two dogs; this means, of course that we felt the need to keep our voices down and could not play music from the iPod we'd brought; (2) while the room and bathroom are clean, the sheets were stained, giving the appearance of being unwashed (and leading to us contacting Tony just after 10pm -- he brought us fresh sheets and explained that the sheets were stained, not unwashed, but it was clearly an unwelcome interruption as he'd already gone to bed); (3) there is a shared heating/fan system between Tony's side and the rental but the control is on Tony's side; we returned from lunch we found the room quite warm, and discovered warm air coming into the room from a vent near the ceiling; We had to ask Tony to turn it off. To his credit, he responded promptly and turned off the fan. Tony said it wasn't set to heat, but the air coming into our room was quite warm.
In brief, this Airbnb rental has some of the features of a private room and some of the features of renting an entire place. The lack of sound insulation and the shared heating/fan system means you don't feel the same kind of seclusion you'd expect in having an entire place.
Tony was very responsive to my several requests (to turn off the fan, to tell me how to turn off the lights on the patio, for clean sheets) but I am concerned that the last request for help, coming at 10:15 or so, upset him. We didn't discover the problem until we were getting ready for bed ourselves, unfortunately.
In sum, it's got a lot to offer, and the location is hard to beat.