Ok let's begin with the negatives.
1. The host describes the location as a culturally diverse community.... that's putting it lightly. as you get off the freeway it looks and feels like you are driving through "skid row" in LA. All the houses in the neighborhood where you'll be staying have bars on the windows and for good reason. countless times did we see or hear people with either mental illness or drug addiction roaming the streets either on the street you'll be staying or the surrounding immediate surrounding area.
2. The host says parking may be a challenge after 5pm... thats inaccurate, it'sa complete crap shoot no matter what time of day you arrive. We got to the house at 3:15 and just about had to park the next block over.
3. That pretty house the host shows in the first thumbnail is NOT where you'll be staying... you'll be staying at the back end of the house, although they do show in the posting pictures the location you'll be staying I feel what the host did is very misleading as to where you'll be staying.
4. Please note you have the potential
of having other guests on the property. From what I saw there's the front house, the back end of the same house (your Air BNB) there's another detached cottage right behind your unit and next to that there's a Motorhome that's hooked up to the properties utilities, which leads me to believe someone is living out of it.
moving into the unit-
5. The kitchen light constantly flickered which so extremely annoying and eventually I swapped out the bulb with a lamp.
6. we stayed in the winter seasons and it was cooler out. the wall heater did a great job warming up a 8 foot radius around it. Mind you it's located outside the bedroom, so don't expect to feel any heat at night.
7. I'm really not sure how the host can claim the sofa is a sofa bed. The couch did not have a mattress built into it.
8. We had to reach out to the host and request another air mattress as the one provided was missing a cap to keep air from escaping. Which the host did correct quickly so thank you for that.
9. The smoke detector in the bedroom had a taped plastic bag over it, which was somewhat unsettling. The unit also had an odd smell in it. Not sure if it was from a cleaner or possibly a prior guest was partaking in the use of some substance... thus the reason why a bag was over the smoke detect and the odd smell. Either way that is something the host should have taken care of that prior to our arrival.
10. There was spider webs on the kitchen light fixture.
11. The pillow situation flat-out stunk... there where only 3 goose down pillows at the property. All of which completely went flat the moment you put you head on them. We had to use the accent pillows off the couch which weren't much better.
12. Hope you like sleeping on an old coil spring mattress that has a pit in the middle. All night long we kept gravitating back into the pit in the middle. That thing should have been tossed years ago.
13. I wanted to take a shower but that was scrapped as there was a big clump of hair swimming by the drain guard when I turned the water on. Needlessto say we where grossed out and didn't want to use it at that point.
14. Piggybacking on 13... you change a $75 cleaning fee and make your guest clean up the place? I'm tired of host like this who nickel and diming you left and right.
Overall this place is a HARD PASS for us. Put your hard earned money elsewhere...
Now the Pros...
1. The host was very responsive and friendly.
that's all I got...