This is the kind of listing where you have to read between the lines... Reading it again after a couple of days in the place and everything lights up, and you see the seller behind the host! Like how the house was converted into a Duplex and how you might hear the neighbor (it's actually at times more like having a roommate... you hear its phone chime, you know when he's having breakfast or when he's sleeping... and worst to us was knowing he'll hear everything from our side... and then the "side garden walkway" he takes to get to his place, well it's about 3 feet wide and runs right in front of both bedrooms window), "kitchen with original counter and cabinets" (counter has many broken tiles, sink is not practical, dishwasher is 30+ yo and has many rust points, cabinet doors and drawers don't open and close easily, and worst of it is that all cabinets have been painted inside and out in a very poor way, with paint peeling off everywhere, including IN the dishware cabinets)
Then house being advertised as super clean, sanitized, etc, but there were many red flags that made us concerned about how really thorough this was done : dust here and there, spider webs, dead flies, a sock in a drawer, a blouse in a closet, a head band drying on a curtain rod, and an coffee filter with growing mold in the coffee machine...
Adding to this some pretty shabby and worn out furniture, many things that needed repair, a a say "eclectic" home decor, a way louder than expected road, and a permanent ant threat (3 times we woke up in the morning to see a 405-like ant freeway running across the place, this sure is not a place we would return to...