Sandy and Victoria have a great home. The kitchen is nice & updated with filtered water. The bathrooms are clean and you can usually get a hot shower. The backyard is great especially when the weather is nice.
However, I don't know if it's a simple personality clash but I didn't leave with a good impression of Sandy and Victoria themselves. Mina and I stayed for about two weeks. During that two week stay we had an incident where a male roommate threw my belongings at me, threatened us with violence, and was yelling at the top of his lungs at us in the middle of the night. He supposedly had his reason for doing so, but to me (and I hope the majority of people) there's no excuse for a grown man to threaten a girl with violence. Sandy's only solution to this was to move my friend and I to the girls only room and to accuse us of being unclean and starting drama. Which is sad because we hoped that as a woman Sandy would put herself in our shoes and throw the male out. Instead because they were friends and he was there before us she (and the rest of the house who witnessed his constant hostility towards us) gave him a slap on the wrist and continued entertaining him. This is a guy who I could write a book about how disruptive he is but this review isn't about him. It's about Sandy and the passive aggressive & immature way she handled it because she's afraid of conflict and of questioning herself and her actions. As for her accusing us of being unclean she said that she got several complaints about us. Those complaints were both from people who were themselves messy, hostile and disruptive. Sandy even admitted this but still played it safe and tried to make it seem like we were the problem. Those complaints were also ironic because Mina and I found ourselves cleaning a lot. Sweeping (so much dog hair that had clearly been there a while), mopping, and putting away other people's dishes etc. Despite this they put up a bunch of weird signs with long list of rules in each room and in all the bathrooms basically saying if any little rule is broken you'll be charged a $25 cleaning fee and/or your reservation will be cancelled. Funny how they supposedly take cleanliness seriously (the house isn't a disaster but it's obvious that cleanliness isn't their top priority) but couldn't put their foot down when a man wakes people up at night screaming at my friend and I over nothing. At one point he was aggravated by simple incense which we did put out, and then another in which his stuff was in an inappropriate place (on top of a dresser that isn't his right next to our bed and very far from his) and my bag that I put there for convenience accidentally touched his. That was when he threw my bag at me and threatened to "slap the shit out of me" amongst other things puffing his chest up and trying to intimidate me when he's twice my size & weight.
Overall the place is great and if you need a nice place for a decent price I do recommend it. For long term stays don't expect to be treated fairly if you don't "fit in" and if you don't let people who don't own the place (their hostile male friends) boss you around. And I did notice a Sandy had a bit of resentment towards us and another person staying there because of our dark skin tone. I'm sure if the man who was yelling at us had our skin color she wouldn't tolerate it for a second. But she not only tolerated it, she practically applauded it. She said she "chewed him out" about it but not even two days later she and the man who threatened us are laughing and talking like best buds. I'm sure this story is very familiar to those of you who have experienced discrimination before. So be wary of that. But if all you're looking for a comfy bed in a nice place near DTLA don't hesitate to book.