The studio is in a quaint neighbourhood. It is attached to a housing complex which is managed by Gary so Gary doesn't actually live on site. Only met Gary once but it was very brief. We talked a lot to his maintenance manager, Frank who was helpful and accommodating. A couple things to note, it seems like the studio wasn't used in a while with the lamps and TV being unplugged and the furnace wasn't turned on. Also the TV for some reason didn't have audio but we were able to get video. We did ask Gary/Frank to fix this issue but there were not able to during the duration of our trip. They did try - tried to fiddle with the TV, did bring in another TV but couldn't find the power cord, they did try to compensate by providing us gift cards to a local restaurant but the restaurant was closed during the holidays and our trip for renos so we couldn't use them. Overall the location is very central to SD downtown but I think Gary has a few buildings which he manages which takes up most of his time so having an airbnb (multiple guests over shorter time frames vs renters) doesn't seem to really fit in.