Maria is a warm and welcoming host, and an interesting person with a wide palette of experiences. The instructions for entering the apartment were very clear. I also appreciated being able to drop my suitcase off in her garage early in the day prior to the check-in time. The room and the apartment were very clean. The street and the apartment itself are very quiet, which is an attribute that appeals to me. There were a lot of homeless people around on the streets outside, but Marie assured me that they are benign and, indeed, that is what I experienced. I would certainly want to stay there again on a future visit to San Francisco.