Nate's house is three blocks from our daughter's house and he was going to be away when we checked in so we walked over to Nate's a day or two before. Nate was cordial and showed us around the guest house. It was new and so it was extremely clean and well furnished.

The guest house had gas stove top and a convection oven, pans, eating utensils, and pretty much everything you need to prepare meals. The amount of space really made us feel comfortable and the furnishings were quit nice. Nate has really tried to make sure that the guest house has everything you might wish for (well there was no TV or audio but my wife and I don't mind that, we could have watched Hulu if we wanted and we did listen to Pandora on my computer.)

I emailed Nate with questions a couple of times and he responded quickly.
The neighborhood could bother some people, it's very diverse and some people do not take care of their property as well as others. We had our westie with us so I was on the street 4 times a day and the people I passed were invariably friendly and polite, everyone greeted me and smiled. The BART runs on elevated tracks a block from Nate's, you can hear it when it passes but the noise level is much less than the auto traffic noise I hear in many places. There is very little auto traffic going by Nate's.