Overall, not a good experience. Right when we arrived, we couldn't get the lockbox open. Turns out the host had changed the code and not updated the guide. It was late at night and we couldn't reach her through the app or by phone, so we had to ring the doorbell and wake her up. All in all we were standing outside with our luggage for a good half hour. And there was only one key! We had to do an annoying amount of work to plan around only having one key for the two of us. What a pain.
The listing warns of "normal house noises". Here are some things which are definitely not "normal house noises":
- A screaming baby, literally all day one of the days we were there, and part of the day another time.
- A small child stomping through the house at ~7am for probably half an hour until we texted the host.
Some people might be okay with this level of noise, but you have to put it in the listing! We definitely wouldn't have booked had we known there were infants / small children in the house. Honestly, neither my partner nor I got a single night of good, uninterrupted sleep, and we both sleep _very_ heavy.
The unit also seems to double as overflow storage for the household. There's just piles of stuff everywhere - there's no closet space at all because it's all being used as storage, and the cupboards in the kitchenette are all completely full.
Otherwise, it's a great location - close to BART, close to all the lovely things the Mission has to offer, but it's actually pretty quiet where this house is despite being so close to everything.