I would never or recommend anybody else to rent from her. You just can't be 100% sure she'll give you your deposit back. 3 of my friends didnt get their deposit back b/c she said "she didn't have it". They wound up having to do a chargeback/dispute on their credit card in order to get their deposit back. We're talking about about over $2,000 amongst the three of them. Besides, she doesn't even own those properties, she just rents them out from somebody and then rents them out herself, seperating differents parts of the house and calling them "efficiencies". If the police were to happen to come out to the home for anything and see it, it would be against violations.

I'd rather pay more and stay in a hotel than rent from her.