We had stayed here for three months.
PROS:
- Close to many bus routes. We didn't have a car for two months, but we were able to visit many attractions by taking a bus easily.
- Close to grocery stores. We hadn't noticed how important this was before we arrived. The place is close to Trader Joe's, Target, and CVS stores.
- Quiet place and many neighbors are actually students. We didn't have any safety issue.
- Free street parking. Sometimes it may be hard to find due to construction sites, but we didn't have any issue. If you want to use the apartment's parking lot, you have to pay $200/month.
- Good quality furniture. The bed, the couch, and the fridge were great! However, we can't say the same for the office desk, the wall-mounted dining table, and the chairs.
- Melissa was a great host. She answered all our questions promptly. She provided us quarters for the laundry. She accepted to remove some furniture from the apartment. We appreciate these a lot!
- There are many nearby restaurants. If you eat outside, you may find many options.
CONS:
- Third floor. We hadn't had issues to climb to the 3rd floor. However, the apartment is HOT and there is no AC, etc. We had awful days due to this. As the laundry room is located on the ground level, you have to go down and up many times just to clean your laundry.
- WI-FI: it was terrible. We couldn't get any signal in the bedroom, and we had to buy a WI-FI extender. As many people worked from home, we never got a consistent WI-FI signal. Keep this in mind if you plan to stay long and work from home.
- The apartment is definitely much smaller than what you see in the pictures. I believe the photos were taken with 0.5 zoom to cover the entire apartment, but they might be deceiving.
- The kitchen is not fully-equipped if you plan to cook for yourself. We had to buy new sets of cookware, knives, dinnerware, mugs, ...