We had an amazing stay at Michael's place. My wife had an internship at SF and her parents was visiting us during this time; so we decided to find a two-bedroom place. However, two-bedroom apartments near my spouse's workplace in downtown were too expensive and small. Given that my in-laws lived their whole life in a village and they wanted to spend a few months with us, we didn't think living in such places would fit their lifestyle. So, we tried to find a place that is further from downtown but bigger and more friendly and we found Michael's place. Not only it was affordable for us as we're students but it also had a BIG yard with amazing trees and flowers. We had a view to the bay, a nice place to seat outside to enjoy the view and also make a barbecue. My in-laws usually walked to the bay in 20 mins and they really enjoyed it. The house was fully equipped with all the necessary stuff and it even had a real fireplace; the experience of building a fire in a real fireplace was amazing. The only issue we found with the house was that it was quite old which I think is common in SF. There was a one-minute walk to the bus stop to go the light train station for downtown which was convenient when we didn't want to use our car. However, not having a car at all might be hard in this area.

It wasn't only the house that we've liked though. Michael was an amazing host as well. Before we arrived, Michael let us know that there was an issue with the dryer and he immediately sent a repairman to fix it. Given that the house didn't have any built-in air conditioner, Michael provided us with two heaters and as my in-laws came from a warm place, they weren't used to a cold weather (even the cold weather in SF!), so they had to turn on the heaters all the night which made the utility bill higher than expected but Michael was kind enough to take care of it. Michael also left us some necessary living stuff that we could use until we settled down and went shopping; thanks Michael :)
And last but not the least, I should mention the fantastic neighbors we had during our stay. Sheryl offered us an extra heater and once went the extra mile to come to the house to inform us that we needed to move our car because we had parked on the wrong side of the road during street cleaning (we didn't notice the sign!). She and her husband were very kind to us and offered us any kind of help that we might need.