The location worked out well for our purposes, being in between San Francisco and Palo Alto, the two places where my family whom we were visiting live. The house was perfect as it housed all of us comfortably as well as a parking space for our car. The immediate surrounding neighborhood was a little run down , but it is a very short walk to downtown San Mateo which is a nice place. The only suggestion I would have is to have more comfortable living room furniture, but overall a very cute house!