Yumi was great and the house was nice and the location was very convenient. A lot of places I looked at seemed to be opportunists renting a house with no clue how to manage tenants- in fact, asking a few questions about operations was seen as a “red flag.” Here, as any place would be, people don’t always 100% clean up after themselves in the kitchen, but they are prepared and have the cleaners coming. (Bring your own dishes though, if you’re not in college.) overall, I have no complaints other than it would have been nice to have an iron and ironing board- I don’t regularly use one, but stuff gets really wrinkled in a suitcase. They have done really nice coin operated W/D x2 and I never seemed to have a problem getting one or two. So essential. There is a B of A half a block away for quarters and (though frowned upon) a laundromat with a coin machine a few blocks away. My review is more just for information because I was helped out by previous reviews and that actually made me felt more comfortable renting in a group house. I stayed for 3 months total while I started my new job and slowly looked for apartments. I barely had time to cook and mostly ate out or got prepared foods at WF and Tj’s a few blocks away. My room was very private and for living in a house, with various housemates, it was pretty quiet. (You’re not going to get dead silent when you are sharing with a number of people). I didn’t socialize with my housemates at all, but you get an idea of who is there if you do laundry and use the kitchen. When I first moved in, there seemed to be a number of young women, probably students, and I only knew if their existence because they liked to cook healthy meals in the shared kitchen. Then there were some gamers- 20’s, 30’s men - mostly kept to themselves-
Mostly take-out food. Some random individuals who I never saw, as I just heard them using the bathroom or snoring as I passed by. Then a lot of more middle aged people who seemed to use the kitchen every single night. There were only two things that bothered me, and in the big picture of roommates offenses were pretty minor - one roommate who seemed to be making a lot of noise in the middle of the night using the bathroom - I spoke to Yumi and the problem seemed to correct itself pretty quickly. The second was the thermostat wars - someone kept turning the heat up to 85F. I tried to deal with this myself as the room I was in faces south and gets a lot of natural heat during the day, so I was sweating all night. Limited success dealing with it myself, but I was leaving anyway. All in all, a good experience, and I would recommend it for a long term stay in SF.