If your goal is to hang out in and around the Castro, you couldn't ask for a better location -- just a block of Castro. The house was nice and clean (in fact, it's actually even a little nicer than the photos made it look.)

We rented the cottage (upstairs) and the downstairs studio combined. It was plenty big for four of us. I would say the upstairs is plenty big for 2-4 people and the downstairs studio is big enough for 1-2. Chas was a communicative, thoughtful and trusting host.

We were a bit worried about the "taking care of two cats" because we are not cat people and two of us are actually allergic. Surprisingly, no one had an averse reaction to being around the cats and they were super easy to care for. In fact, the siamese one, Ling, is a total people lover and we kind of have a cat-crush.