To summarize: it’s a dirty, cramped inconvenient little place that I dreaded leaving or coming back to because of the 34+ stairs and street. It should be cheaper.
The son who manages it is friendly but constantly bugs you to give him 5 stars. When I asked him to replace the remote for the OLD TV in the bedroom because volume control didn’t work he told me to just use the buttons on top. Lol
The kitchen wasn’t clean at all. Black gunk in edges, corners and on appliances that were filthy and burnt plastic on both microwave and regular oven. All the dishes seemed rinsed but not clean enough to use without washing again. It was like being in college. There’s a layer of of something all over the kitchen. The paper towels were the thin rough paper you’d find in a men’s room dispenser and there wasn’t dish soap available so I used hand soap to use a spoon.
The carpet in the whole house was atrociously dirty with big spots of something hard and dried in the bedroom carpet
And I couldn’t take a shower last day because of the dirt that came out of the faucet.
It’s really close to 280, city, ocean, airport, etc..but you already know that. Once you get off the property it’s in a good location for driving somewhere, it’s just getting out that’s annoying.
What the listing doesn’t say is that while the shopping and restaurants are close, they’re not easily accessible. The entrance to the building is on a very busy street, 3 lanes, divided highway, and you must turn right and go south a mile, before you can make a u turn on another busy street or an exit south on freeway, to go back and get to supermarket, etc.. which are teasingly close but an big effort to get to.
To walk, you go up the steep hill and you have to make 3 crosswalk crossings at a very busy intersection to get to anything because there’s no walk signals or crosswalk on the south side of the intersection as you come from the south.
I had to make a u-turn to get in to the building. Between the large number of stairs and the forced right turn or intersection crisscrossing, I dreaded leaving or coming in to this place.