The location of this room is excellent, nearby to the shopping areas of Rock Ridge and Elmwood, on the border between Oakland and Berkeley. Excellent restaurants, coffee shops, and various kinds of specialty stores are within short walking distance, as is the BART. That said, there are problems with this unit. First, and most disconcerting, the external door that must be used to enter the house has a terribly finicky lock. I was never certain that I would be able to get it open, and at night, after spending a full day, to come "home" and have to fiddle with a lock, trying again and again to get it to work, constantly aware that one might not able to get in and having no other place to stay is not enjoyable. Moreover, this is an easily resolvable problem. Second, the handle to the door of my room fell off the first time I opened it. I talked with the person who manages the rooms, and he suggested that I just push it back together and be careful with it. That's hardly a solution, and every time I (gently) opened the door, I expected the handle to fall and wondered how I would get into the room if it did. Again, this is an easy and inexpensive thing to fix. Overall, the house is in dire need of TLC--and most particularly the scary front door lock. Until that's fixed, I can't recommend this property.