Staying at Troy’s place has a lot of upsides yet some downsides, too. The location is great: Nice neighborhood, 5 mins to Santa Monica beach, lots of bars/restaurants, grocery stores nearby. That was truly fantastic and exactly what I was looking for. The place itself was all in all too dirty for me. The shared kitchen I wouldn’t really call a shared kitchen as there literally wasn’t one bit that wasn’t sticky, leftover food in the sink, dirty dishes, filthy cupboards … I had initially planned to cook in there in order to save some money on eating out every day but well I wouldn’t have known how. The room and bathroom are cleaner apart from the carpet which was pretty stained and had a strong smell to it … other than that the room has everything you need: comfortable bed, enough closet space, even a desk, TV, and mini fridge.