The host Chris Pratt was very helpful and friendly. The neighborhood was great and full of nice middle class families with well behaved young children. It's half a block from a beautiful park but very little traffic noise. There was no parking problems and the cottage is very quiet and private. Good restaurants, Safeway and Whole Foods and general shopping stores are only about a mile away. The cottage is located halfway between San Francisco and San Jose and it's only half hour by car to those two destinations. The weather here is perfect, not cold and windy like in San Francisco and not hot like in San Jose. We loved it!