A beautiful apartment in a fantastic location! The Lower Haight is a great place to explore SF, and the apartment is near lots of great coffee shops, restaurants, etc.

What I loved: the apartment is nicely decorated, with a lot of beautiful plants. It feels spacious and uncluttered. The kitchen is great. The workspace nook is small but worked fine for me. Ashley is super responsive and helpful. And of course the location is awesome!

A few things that weren't my favorite: the bed is very very soft. I'm generally pretty tolerant and can sleep on a lot of different surfaces, but this one was really a bit too soft. Because the location is so central, it can be quite noisy at night. The other thing to note is that there is only coin-operated laundry available. This wasn't clearly indicated on the listing. I don't mind paying a few extra dollars for laundry but getting ~$10 in quarters when you want to do a load of laundry is extremely inconvenient. (Not even sure where I would get it from tbh). I'm lucky in that I had friends in the area so I could just do it at their place. But this was a major sticking point for me. Finally, I think there are just a few things at the apartment that could use a touch up. The kitchen door lock sticks sometimes and makes the door very hard to open. There are a few things that are in disrepair and maybe slightly falling apart. The kitchen has a lot of appliances but only 3 spoons and a similar number of forks. I think most of these could be solved by having the host/a trusted friend live in the apartment themselves for a week while cooking meals etc. and just get a feel for what needs fixing and adjusting.