I had very mixed feelings with this place and probably most honestly would've said three stars/Okay, but balancing the pluses (i.e., her letting me move out) I wanted to acknowledge Lois's flexibility for letting me move out early.
Basically this is a private owner who is operating a mini-hotel from his basement, which to me seems super sketchy and shouldn't be allowed, but if the city and Airbnb are okay with this, then that's that and I'll leave the sociopolitical arguments for the effects of that for a different venue.
Pros: The place is reasonably priced for a short term rental, and the place was very clean and was newly renovated. It was very small, and had poor quality furnishings/furniture (and a clock that was hung up without any batteries in it). However, it was indeed clean and new which is good. It also had everything I needed, including a hair dryer plus some extras like ice cube trays. I really don't have any complaints about the actual place except for the major con below, and if it weren't for the noise, I would've been happy to stay there. Also, for those with a car (and i can imagine given how far away this place is from other places in the city and poor transport links, it would be hard to stay here without a car) parking was very easy to find.
Cons: However, unfortunately this one very major con made this place unlivable for me. However, a caveat that I'm an *extremely* light sleeper, and have notorious difficulty with this so maybe someone less sensitive to noise might be less bothered. Basically there is zero noise insulation in this place. Like you can hear EVERYTHING. There is a couple upstairs with a newborn baby, and the baby's room is right above the room. I was thus woken up every morning sometime between 2-4 am and from 5-6 am onwards. It meant that I couldn't sleep at all more than 2 hours at a time. Beyond the inability to sleep, you could also hear EVERYTHING that goes on, so during waking hours around 8 pm you'd hear the mother putting her baby to sleep with "rockabye baby" and "twinkle twinkle". I'm pretty sure no parent puts their kid to sleep screaming so you can imagine how thin the walls are. Then at 6-7 am, the parents go into the room and make oogling baby noises and blow raspberry farts onto the baby's skin. Apparently this family is planning to leave at some point, but even if you don't get baby, you might have some other type of noise depending on the tenant upstairs.
To the owner's credit, they were very responsive and understanding when I conveyed this challenge to them, and she talked to the family and tried to improve the situation. She was very accommodating and allowed me to move into the room next door which was vacant for 9 days, so I moved there for a bit. However, someone was moving in and I still had 2 weeks left so I ended up leaving the accommodations and now I'm crashing on the sofa in the living room of my old place. I'm really grateful to Lois for her willingness to let me move to a different room and then to move out. That's why I gave them 4 stars instead of 3 for the experience.
I moved into A4 next door for 4 days, and slept super well. That's the thing, if it weren't for upstairs and noise within the house, Sunset District is actually INCREDIBLY quiet, and I slept so incredibly well in the new place. That is except that the people living in the house above are early risers so woke up at 7 am and in A4, I could hear a small child and their parents and they were in the garage and I could hear them showering and using the bathroom. The other thing about this place is that if there is someone living in both A3 and A4 at the same time, there is very little privacy as the windows are quite low and so people walking by can see in very easily.