North Beach location near Italian restaurants and Chinatown provides a great base to explore the city. Greg was very helpful and we thoroughly enjoyed talking with him about the city. Greg was also very flexible with letting us leave our luggage in the hall until our late flight time, which was a huge help to us. The apartment is old and there was good bit of street noise at times (garbage trucks, people talking, and big party next door on one night but it was a special occasion and not a regular event), but for us it was all about location. The bathroom is shared between Irina, Greg, your room and a second room that they rent out, for a potential total of 6 people, but everyone was on different schedules and the wait was minimal.