I felt safe staying at Lily’s place and felt very comfortable! Lily was so kind and so nice she really was helpful and accommodating in helping me extend my stay with her by checking into one of her rooms last minute and maintaining my stay with her. Here’s my honest opinions but I still rated her A+++++ for my stay in my first room.
LAYOUT OF THE PLACE:
You’d drive up to Lily’s beautiful home. Facing her place park in the driveway where she tells you to park.
Facing the house look for the black side gate on the left of the house. Enter there by going thru it. Pass the first door (unless you need to drop off some pantry items in your cabinet, put larger or overflow of freezer/fridge items in the common use bigger fridge, wash clothes etc). The second door is where you enter with your assigned code to enter. The screen door then the door you’ll here it chime when you enter. On the right is where you take off your shoes and either place it in the shoe holder or take it with you. Go up a few flight of stairs and you’ll see three rooms (doors are labeled with the numbers you look for assigned to you). Enter your code and there’s your room with your private bath room, small fridge with working freezer and microwave.
Anytime before 8am or after 10pm courtesy to be quiet cause the walls are thin.
PROS:
Self Digital Key check in really quick making a seamless check in your first time thru your room and common area
The bed is so comfortable and felt really warm at night
The amenities that’s included (washer, dryer from 8am to 10pm, drive way assigned parking, private bath, common balcony patio outside of your room, small fridge with working freezer, microwave, common area bigger fridge) was better than expected!
There’s that common area which is the first door when you go thru the gate. It’s a converted garage into a shared dinning area, washer and shared larger fridge with freezer. The dinning area has a dinning room table and chair to sit and eat. Theres a sofa near the fridge. There’s a toaster oven, George Foreman grill, crockpots and rice cooker for use and of course wash and clean after use. I see some plates and other items but I never Ed tried to use it.
There’s a plug in fan if you need it at night
There’s a desk and chair for you to do any work
Closet space with hangers
Close to a lot of supermarkets, stores and restaurants - even the mall which I don’t think is open yet
The host so quick to communicate so quickly and so pleasant.
Try BOBA 8086 just two blocks from this Airbnb has the best bobas and smoothies plus popcorn chicken... it’s a drive thru or order pickup.
CONS:
Very thin walls especially when your neighboring new roomies next door are loud talkers at 12am at night... I figured out after my neighbor next door was on the phone for hours I could hear all his conversations. I tend to go in the bathroom and talk in there so my roomies next to me don’t hear my conversations...
Although there’s a TV, cable doesn’t work but use MENU / SMART HUB / OPEN SMART HUB you can either choose HULU, NETFLIX, AMAZON PRIME or even YOUTUBE to watch things on with logging into your own accounts. I used Youtube not needing to login to watch anything I’d like
Wifi isn’t strong here and it can be spotty at times so if you’re needing a really strong internet connection, this isn’t the place to be to work from home. There’s a Starbucks two blocks away on Naomi Street that you can use better connection.
The desk chair squeaks so if your sitting down and moving around in it - it squeaks really loud
The chimes when you enter and exit is loud so keep in mind if you enter and exit, everyone will hear your movements.
There’s one flight of stairs going up to your room. If you have mobility issues this isn’t the place for you.
After you wash downstairs, the dryer is upstairs near your rooms so you’d have to lug your clean, wet items in your hamper or bag up the stairs.
The freeways are about 2 miles away but it’s still very easy to get to! If there’s traffic on the freeway, get off the freeway and use the streets you’d be surprise you’re not sitting in traffic!
OVERALL:
This is a great safe and clean place very affordable and you’ll love staying here! Beats staying at the local hotels which this place surpasses the amount of amenities and awesome host! At the end of my stay she gave me Sees Candies such a beautiful gesture! This is my only stay I’d do here in LA even long stays for me to come back to when there’s an opening!!! Thank you Lily for your hospitality!!