This was rough. Should I start with the peeping Tom?? We had an early morning and the people in the duplex across the driveway came outside literally screaming after midnight. I got a sarcastic wave when I looked outside to see what was going on. Real classy girl smoking. The noise from the neighbors continued for hours, slamming, cars coming and going...if you’re looking for a restful/safe place and you have children, I do not recommend this place.
Unit is in a sketchy neighborhood with the freeway right across the street. We went out in the evening and when we returned, one of the other duplex occupants parked a uhaul van where we had been (in the area we were instructed to park), so while there was some room for us on the driveway, we were just barely off the street. Didn’t feel comfortable having our car practically on the street in this neighborhood.
Before 8am on a Sunday there was a big truck with a trailer and a few guys crashing around RIGHT outside the bedroom window. At about 8:30 one of them was looking in our window. Then they sat in the driveway for a while. Again, not restful. I think the peeper may have been wanting us to move the uhaul that wasn’t ours, but then he managed to drive around it and leave. Whatever the case - looking in windows, extremely not ok. He was peeking through the crack in the curtains. If he wanted to ask something, he could have knocked on the door. That’s the type of area this place is in.
Note that this is a duplex. There is another duplex on the other side of the driveway. In addition to the super classy neighbors in the other duplex, you can and will hear all the pounding down the hall, phone ringing, and door slamming on the other side of the wall. Units are not very well insulated from each other. We were surprised to find a duplex when we arrived since it’s listed as “entire place” and the duplex info is nestled in the middle of the description, easy to miss.
The unit was very clean, sparkling! The cleaning lady who we met on the way out was super nice and she does a really great job. Overall the place was not top of the line by a long shot, and definitely not worth paying a total of $240/night, especially when you have people outside and on the other side of the wall keeping you awake all night. I could have spent $100 less at a hotel and gotten a good night’s sleep and no creep factor. It’s an old, rundown building where they’ve done a quickie remodel on the inside for some fast cash from Airbnb. Felt like we were contributing to the housing crisis by patronizing the place.