Thank you for sharing your home with us – despite some inconveniences and place not being completely private, we did enjoy our stay and we thank you for your hospitality and prompt responses.

Pros:
+ Located in a cute town of Pacifica with many hiking trails. Breathtaking Ocean (Pacifica State Beach) is a 10 minute drive and downtown San Fran is 30 mins away.
+ Owners left plenty of towels!
+ The place was clean and well maintained & there were clean and cute (ceramic hand-made) dishes!
+ Kitchen was stocked with spices, condiments, pots and pans = everything you need to cook meals!
+ Owner responded fast to an unexpected situation – all of the lights on one side of the wall all of a sudden shut off & even though we lost one evening worth of work trying to deal with fixing the overhead lights & lamps, the owners immediately took action and worked on it and eventually the lights came back.

Cons:
-Cul-de-sac is very busy and loud with neighbors standing outside most evenings and talking loudly
-Since the neighboring houses really close, there was a lot of noise outside and the back porch also did not feel private because the owners (right above) and various neighboring houses had direct view of the porch.
-The heat vent did not work in the bathroom, so that space was freezing
-Whenever anyone walked upstairs, it felt like someone was running on the ceiling.
-Even though the unit is on the 1st floor of the house (owners right above), we did not feel like we had a completely private space: 1) main gate dragged across the pavement every time it was opened/closed (as if we were officially announcing our times of entry & exit), 2) one person could not be outside on the deck while anyone is trying to sleep because the first set of bedroom windows have paper curtains (as long as there is any light on the deck, darkness does not exist inside the bedroom), 3) the second window did not have any curtain, so the owner got some protective film for us to put on the window for privacy (but it did not create darkness). Anytime any light is on in the bedroom, the owners had a direct view into it via their part of the courtyard.
-Owners were incredibly persistent about conservation of water, lights and heat. They contacted us late at night about “turning off heat” during the night and “turning off the valve” of the water for the toilet (which was running), and making sure “all the lights” were off when we left the house (we felt like we were breaking the rules when leaving the night-light on). We wanted to use the outdoor heat lamp, but since the instructions said “use as little as possible”, we could not enjoy our outdoor space in the evenings and only used the lamp for 10 minutes.