Overall A+ for Al! I was so worried after reading the mixed reviews for airbnb, because I had never done this before, but everything worked out great! The listing was accurate. Everything looked like the pictures and was very clean. The neighborhood was nice. We felt very safe and had no problems. A simple little walk will take you to a pleasant part of the beach (much less people than other areas). I would rent from Al again, and if I did, I would plan for more time on this beach as it was very beautiful. I was taking an older group of Girl Scouts and this was a really big deal for us so I had lots of questions for Al and he responded quickly and was very patient with me and answered everything.
My only problem was nothing Al could control, but wanted to let people know parking may be an issue when you rent any beach house as it was very stressful to have more than one car (so thankful to have one parking spot in the garage!). So if you have one car it's perfect, but if you take two cars you need to plan to move them as San Diego near the beach has lots of rules about where and when you can park.