Maria's place was in a good location, close walking distance to BART and to the downtown area my conference was.
My recommendation for others planning to stay here is just to wake up and give yourself plenty of time as some times the shared bathroom takes time to get all of the guests through.
The only downside we had was our first night there was rather hot and the window in our room had no air flow and their was no fan or ac which made sleeping a little hard the first night. Lucky the rest of the nights the temp dropped significantly and we were able to sleep.