The room is even nicer than you can tell from the picture. The sheets are so soft, must be high thread count, and everything is very clean. The kitchen is full of food and drinks you can have, and the bathroom is full of toiletries you're free to use. There are also lots of pamphlets and maps and such to help you if you don't know the area, and Jason is very eager to tell you about the area. It's a very nice apartment, and the building is only a few blocks from the heart of the Mission. Overall, this is a perfectly good place to stay.

If you're expecting a close host-guest dynamic, like staying at somebody's house, you will not have that here. There are 4 or 5 guestrooms and the owner lives separately upstairs; the feeling is more of an upscale hostel; like a business, not a home. This is fine unless it's not what you're looking for, and should be pointed out.

Although we had agreed on my arrival time, Jason was unable to keep it, and I ended up having to monopolize more of the time of the people who were dropping me off, and cutting into my only day in the city as we waited for him. When he finally arrived about an hour later than agreed, he let me in, but the room I had booked was not ready for me to move in, and it wasn't ready for over two additional hours, which meant I didn't have a chance to get situated and ground myself before going off to explore the city, as I would have liked. Jason explained there was a devastating event in the life of his cleaning person, and told me that things are usually much more organized; he also was kind enough to waive the cleaning fee for me since I was put out. I can only take his word that this is not the normal way of things around his place, but it should be pointed out. If someone else wasn't being dropped off by kind people, and/or didn't know the city as well as I do, and/or it was a different time of day, his failure to make the arrival time could put someone in a much worse situation than it did me.

The last thing I want to say is the street immediately around the building is all some type of warehouse, so it's neither attractive nor safe feeling. There were a couple of probable drug-abusers leaning on the building wailing for over an hour that afternoon when I was trying to nap. To be expected maybe in any big city, but a street that was more residential than warehouse might be a better bet if this is a concern for anybody.