We stayed two nights in San Diego in this enormous house. Sam wasn't there but he had an assistant and housekeeper, Matt and Elda, to take excellent care of us. Matt was very helpful to give us advice about shopping, restaurants etc in the area. The house was in a very nice and quiet neighbourhood. The room was clean but warm since it did not have air conditioning. Everything was very clean and nice. We had full access to the gigantic living rooms with amazing home entertainment centres and a huge kitchen. However it felt a bit out of character for a luxury listing to use plastic forks, knives and plates.
As there were several other people staying in other apartments in the house it would have been nice to have a way to lock the door to our room while we were out, but we had only very good experiences with the other guests.