Our stay at Evan’s was a bit mixed. The place was spacious as described and the rooms, kitchen, and bathrooms were really nice. Evan was nice enough to let us check in early and getting in was smooth. Everything was going well, but later that night the neighbors below were pretty rowdy and were screaming and shouting up until 3am and then the noise started back up around 7am. I talked to them the next morning and they apologized for being loud. My family and I went and purchased ear plugs just in case the noise continued the next night. Thankfully, they kept their word and kept the noise down. The walls are thin so you can hear the conversations of the people below quite easily, but thats just the way it is with the old homes in oakland. During our second day, we were out all day and got back around 3 in the afternoon and found some random persons bags strewn on the living room floor. I contacted Evan and he had no idea whose they were at first. Naturally my family became alarmed and didn’t want to leave their valuables at the house anymore. We had plans to go to a friends party, so I left expecting everything to be taken care of by the time we got back. We returned around 8pm and found the bags still on the living room floor with no update on the situation. At this point, I just sent a text to the phone number that was listed on the baggage tag to sort everything out and make sure some stranger wouldn’t come into our place in the middle of the night to get their bags. We lost a good hour of our day because of this and we were late to meet up with some friends for dinner. I’m still not exactly sure what the mix up was, but my dad wasn’t happy that someone random had a key to our place. It wouldn’t have been such a big deal if I was alone, but it was my dad and sisters first time staying at an airbnb and they didn’t get a very pleasant experience. It’ll be tough to convince them to stay at another.