Positive aspects are the location and parking permit.
In the pictures, the apt looks clean, but in reality the appliances in the kitchen are outdated, with a rusted toaster and coffee machine. When the electric kettle is switched on the fuse blows out. The sink was stained, in the cupboards and draws were dirty.
We stayed there 5 days at the end of November and the temperature in LA was low, hence we needed heating. On arrival day the apartment was really cold. We asked the host, Travelartist (who introduced himself as Bill, but we don’t know his real name, which is weird) switched on the thermostat using a wire. Apparently is was needed to reset the device.
Note that the kitchen and bathroom have no heating at all (which is not mentioned on Airbnb, otherwise we would not have booked).
The only source of heating is an ancient furnace in the living-room, mounted in a hole in the floor next to the bed. The furnaced stopped working when it reached the temperature set on thermostat, but it didn’t reactivate once the temperature dropped. We tried during the night to reactivate the furnace from the thermostat using the wire Bill gave us. We alerted Bill several times by email and calling him. The second night we had no heating at all and we asked the host to bring us an electric radiator. We could smell gas in the room and we were afraid of the carbon monoxide level. First, Bill mounted another thermostat but it didn’t help. Then he brought in the last night an old radiator that ran only at low speed and didn’t have enough heating power.
Thus, we slept 5 nights in a cold room and checking every hour the flame in the furnace as we were afraid of gas leak poisoning. We would have expected the host to refunded a part of the money for the loss of heating and not offering the services described on Airbnb. However, we didn’t ask for a refund.
Instead, the host offered to reimburse $100 to us provided we refrain the writing a review. He would transfer the money after 2 weeks, when the period for reviews on Airbnb expired.
We believe it’s important that other guests are aware of this experience.
We have pictures that document everything about cleanliness and heating furnace.
Most of the time heating is not needed in LA, so probably this issue was so far not noticed. That said, I would not recommend this apartment.