The area is very nice, as long as you don't mind the killer hills, but it's definitely a safe place to walk around in SF. The place itself is ok, but enough for the price. There are no common areas except for the kitchen and in my case my room was right next to, like you had to cross the kitchen to get to it which made it uncomfortable having people outside your room all the time and getting woken up by the coffee grinder really early. Also very little space to store things, the drawers in the pictures were all filled with other things... Again, good area, might be worth it for the price, just be aware of all of this.