We didn't meet with Herbert, but we were noticed that he would be travelling so it was Ok. We could talk with him via airbnb chat, and he usually answered within a day. The description was as it is, even though at the first moment it was weird to get into the house through the garage and we we're a little bit surprise. Maybe a simple indication would be great. The room was ok, but there are some indications that you have to clean up and make the bed the day you're leaving with clean sheets. That made us think that no clean up was done by anyone (so we don't understand why do we had to pay a clean up fee).
The apartment has a bus stop just on the corner around, and it was easy to get to the downtown taking 2 busses (or walking 10 minutes and taking a bus and BART). Knowing where it is now, maybe we would have got a hotel/hostel/room more near the downtown, as it takes 1h ~ 1h 20m to get to the apartment.
As we were in the garage, we had a lot of noise from the rooms upstairs. We heard all the steps, a dog running all the house, and it was quite annoying.
If you don't mind to be far from the city center, and you only want to have a place where to go to only to sleep, it's ok.