I am not from California so I do not know the area well. We chose the location because it was close to where we had an event. On our drive to the house we saw multiple cop cars close to the neighborhood we were going to be in.
The space was nice and was basically what we had expected except there were only two trash cans and some of the beds were really hard.
On the second night of us staying there we realized that the house was split into two (the description mentioned a guest room but it wasn’t explained how it was all connected, that the walls would be so thin, and we’d be so close to them) and the other half was rented out to a separate party because at 1AM some of my family was woken up by screaming and fighting happening in the other unit. It was very scary and we were worried there might be domestic violence occurring. The fighting lasted until 5 AM and half of my family couldn’t fall asleep until after they stopped. When I informed the host the next morning all he said was that they “will ask them to check out today,” and did not let us know if they had left or not, which made us feel unsafe.
That same day we witnessed two strange young men walking through the back yard and hopping the fence. I informed the host and he said they were “probably just dumping trash because the dumpster was back there and they shouldn’t be back.” But when we saw them they were not carrying anything and then later crossed back through the same way they left. When I told the host of this he said nothing and just asked when we’d be checking out. It all felt very unsafe and like the host didn’t really care.