The house is beautiful -- the common area on the main floor is well decorated with soothing lighting and music. It is in a good location, about a 10 minute walk from Balboa Park and a 45 minute walk to the Convention Center. It felt safe and despite being in the flight path of landing planes, I wasn't terribly bothered by that because Michael clearly put things in place to minimize disturbance from noise. There was clearly a lot of thought and effort that had been put into the house -- from art, music, lighting, books, decorations and furniture on the deck, etc.
I did not get to spend as much time enjoying the place or the deck as I had hoped due to a very busy schedule, so I only spent time at the house in my room (the converted wine cellar room) to sleep and get ready for the day. This is where the negative has to be stated. I am not a supreme germophobe but the state of the towels/linens/pillows don't inspire confidence. The towels smelled clean but were thin and worn out from thousands of washes, complete with bleach stains on half of the colored towels. Some of them had faded spots from various stains that have clearly refused to be washed away. The linens were definitely white at some point but have now taken that off-white color of aged linens. The pillows were also a uniformly off-white color reminiscent of sweat stains. It didn't bother me much that there were a few spiderwebs here and there or that there was construction debris under the bed. There was a bathroom in the room that was clean with a sink, a macerator toilet, and a spotless jacuzzi tub. The door to this was a sliding corrugated sheet metal which was weird but okay.
I spent $75 a night which means that I shouldn't expect luxury, but small things could be changed to change this to 5-star experience (for the price range).