I was really looking forward to my time at Cali's place in San Francisco. It is right near Hayes Valley which is a great shopping/ eating area (5 blocks away) and we are right around the corner to Fillmore St. which if you keep walking down that road you will hit a nice shopping area and a nice dining scene. The apartment is within a gate community and we had no issues being within the gated community. However, outside the gated community was a bit sketchy and not as clean or as nice as expected. Furthermore, this property is not a place for larger vehicles, in fact, I had to get a rental car because my car could not fit in the garage of the apartment. Do not get a large sedan if thinking of renting.
The most disappointing part of the stay were the hosts. They did not help when we couldn't use the gates to get into the property, nor could they help when their oven broke unexpectedly and we had to go two weeks without an oven. Lastly, the cable never worked and there were plenty of times where the TV would stop working. Cali did very little to help us, in fact, she would follow up with us once, and then never follow through on fixing the over, helping us to get a key fob so we could get into the gated community, as well as explaining the recycling and trash protocol. The first two weeks of our stay no one picked up our recycling or our trash. I am very disappointed in the lack of communication from Cali, and wish that she could have been straightforward about why she couldn't respond so quickly (family issues, illness, didn't have notifications on etc.) We would have been more understanding, but eventually it got to the point where everything was breaking and she wasn't helping our experience, and inhibited it in many ways.