Vannida's apartment is as advertised. It was clean and in a really prime location in terms of being able to walk to so many wonderful restaurants and sights. Her market next door is just so wonderful and convenient, as is the Safeway across Church St.
Several reviews mentioned this as a "transitional" area. San Francisco has really not done a good job containing/controlling the amount of people living and camping on the streets. Business owners and homeowners have a right to be discouraged about this fact. There are homeless on every corner of the city. There is also human feces on the streets. If you come to this city, then you better be prepared. I never had any trouble while traveling with my family. I always felt safe in the apartment. But, a week in San Francisco is plenty.
Some things Vannida could improve upon:
She needs to provide more storage options in the bedrooms. She did provide more hangers upon my request.
Vannida needs to spend money and get decent mattresses. I can't believe no one has mentioned this before in a review. My husband and I woke up with back aches each morning from sleeping on shoddy beds. The beds were awful!
Vannida needs to provide fresh, unopened bars of soap. It was quite odd to see "used" bars of soap in both showers.
I have no problem with paying for coin operated washers and dryers but getting quarters and having the machine eat them up was a huge pain. Also the dryer never dried my clothes and I had to keep adding quarters. Vannida did add some money for us. However, just charge me up front for a "laundry fee" and be done with it.