This was a beautiful house and we had a great time in it. The pictures and description were accurate. The house was clean and well maintained. The hosts were very responsive, helping us get access to drop off bags early so as not to have to leave them in the car, and checking in during the visit to make sure things were going ok.
Ocean Beach is my new favorite San Diego neighborhood. I'd been to San Diego several times before, but never to Ocean Beach. This was my first San Diego trip where I haven't really wanted to leave the neighborhood to go anywhere else. It was walkable to groceries, good restaurants, and both a big wide street-level beach and some smaller beaches at the bottom of a steep cliff.
The house was two levels of living space with a garage we had access to underneath. It has really nice decks on both levels, and had a barbeque grill on the lower one. It's in a tight gated compound of six houses on what was probably originally two lots, and shared a common wall with one of the others.
It's not really quiet or private. We didn't encounter other compound neighbors much, but the deck runs almost up to the property line with an apartment building next door which seemed to always have people outside talking. The back wall is up against an alley that also had some nighttime noise. It's also under the departure path from the San Diego airport, so it had jets flying fairly low over it at full throttle every few minutes. It was hard to ignore on the deck, but far less noticeable indoors, where it seemed astonishingly well sound insulated against airplane noise. I figure all this is the cost of being in a vibrant urban neighborhood, and would happily stay there again.