Definitely recommend this place for anyone visiting San Francisco! Maria is a great host and her house is beautiful. You get a nice view of the downtown San Francisco skyline from the dining room/living room at the back. The bedrooms are clean, comfortable, and Maria does a good job marking in the kitchen what can and cannot be used by guests as far as food and utensils. The neighborhood is also nice, right on the boundary between quiet residential and the busy downtown and safe to walk around if you return home a little later than expected. And most importantly, if you want to travel by public transit, Maria's house is an easy 9-minute walk down Eighth Street from Civic Center station, which will give you access to four of the five BART lines, several Muni Light Rail lines, and the F Streetcar line to the Ferry Terminal and the Fisherman's Wharf. Just be careful with the deadbolt to the front door, because it is easy to accidentally turn the knob out of sync with the bolt itself, and then you have to play with it a little to get it to unlock and open right.