The place is in a great location for walking to Balboa park, Zoo, port and little Italy as described, I even walked 40min to greyhound bus terminal when finished with mostly flat ground.
It is a old house, with several rented rooms. It has old house charm, i.e. squeaky wooden stairs and floor board, but luckily no noisy people during my stay. There is clearly sound proofing, but the planes flight path is about 400m almost directly over the house, so I did hear planes fly over from 6.30am.