The owner was very nice but this place was not clean and overall it was run down. These are just the facts of our stay: My boyfriend and I spent the first 2 hours cleaning and reorganizing the place. We filled 3 full size garbage bags with trash, old clothes, old linens and random stuff that was just laying around everywhere. The linens that were provided smelled bad, and we just used our own.
The WiFi never worked during our stay. We were able to get weak signal from the main house, which was frustrating on days when work from home needed to be completed.
The neighbors complained about parking, so we had to park further up a hill every day, which makes laundry day and grocery shopping a bit more of a challenge.
The bottom lock on the door didn’t work and the deadbolt was very hard to lock. My boyfriend fixed it himself. The glass cabinet is filled with what seems like all the old stuff they didn’t want in their house. The big metal shelf was also cluttered with random items. We had to move it all to actually have storage for our own items.
All of the furniture is old and stained. The tiny refrigerator was just sitting on the floor, which was super inconvenient. We bought a side table from Ikea to put it on, which created more storage space underneath.
We did a lot of work to make the space livable. The next tenants (and the owner) will greatly benefit from what we’ve done and the previous tenants were probably just being nice in their review if the conditions were the same as what we experienced. This place is chill if you’re on a budget. (It is unfortunate that a “budget” place in Oakland costs $5400 over 3 months.) But if you have other options, choose wisely. Awesome neighborhood, close to great restaurants.
With a little more TLC and updated furniture, this place could be much more appealing.
Less is more. This place was very cluttered and disorganized, so we made it our own and spruced up the space.
I travel a lot and all I ask for is a place to be sanitary and uncluttered. This place was neither upon our check-in. We did a lot of work on the interior to make this location more clean and functional.