My fiancée and I traveled to Northern and Southern CA during the holiday to visit family and friends and decided to try an Air bnb for the first time. In Northern CA we stayed at Alicia's Place. Below are the pros and cons of our stay;

Pros;
-Upon arrival chocolates were left on our pillows (nice touch)
-Alicia provided great direction on how to access the space
-The place was kept really clean
-The bed and pillows were really soft and comfortable
-The place is centrally located in Oakland in a very good area and gives you great access to getting to San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area.
-Street parking was always available during our stay.

Cons;
-The space has no microwave or TV. It has Wi-Fi so bring a tablet if you want to watch movies in the evening when you are resting or relaxing there.

-The heat was monitored and the space is very cold during the winter months. We were provided a space heater but it only kept the sleeping area warm, the sitting area and bathroom outside the sleeping area were still cold.

-The bathroom is outside the room and across the sitting area, make sure to have on clothes when you leave the bathroom after a shower, the window in the sitting area has no curtain and you can see the next door neighbor very clear, so they definitely can see you as well in your birthday suit.

-Although they provided a noise cancel machine is was not a good experience at all hearing the washing machine going every day the last week we stayed there since the washer and dryer is right behind the divider that separates you from the rest of the space on that floor.

-Every day in the morning starting at 5:30am you can here her children and some animal/pet stomping and running over our heads and one morning we heard one of the kids screaming and crying at the top of his lungs, again all this taking place early in the morning between 5-9am, unless they are out of town when you rent the space, like they were the first week we stayed there (you may not get any sleep).

-Based off their posting we thought this was a lower level space that would be occasionally used to access the washer and garage, unfortunately that space is used on a daily basis and there was not a sense of privacy and definitely not peaceful during the second half of our stay.

Overall I would give this place a "C", it was just too noisy and you had no sense of privacy. It is so clean, if you are looking for a space at a great price and not concern about peace and sleep, this is a great place to stay.