This was the best Airbnb experience I have ever had, and not only have I never had a bad one before, but my previous hosts had all been excellent (and likely remain excellent).
Eric and his family, however, are simply outsanding. The room was very clean, and immediately I felt at home. The location was perfect. It is a short walk to CalTrain which gets you anywhere from SF to San Jose. I made it to the airport very quickly for under $10 using CalTrain and BART.
Eric is a wonderful guy who is knowledgable about the area, encyclopedically so. Your room will come with menus from nearby restaurants which they can vouch for as being good. He and I had lots to talk about, as it turned out we have many shared interests.
James is amazing. He treated me so well, in fact, that I did not want to leave. He is incredibly friendly and knows a lot about many things, so it is both easy and enjoyable to have conversations with him.
Tami is also amazing, and like James is very kind and just as intelligent. She and her husband have wonderful friends who I had the privilege of meeting during my stay, and I felt extremely welcome the entire time. She, like Eric, also knew which local eats were the most worthy of my limited time.
Going into my visit to SF, I had approached this transactionally (money for shelter), but on Day One it became immediately clear, and looking back it remains the case, that the shelter and money were ancillary to the true value of my decision. I had in fact made great friends, whose hospitality I will always remember, and I had in fact acquired great experiences, which I would not trade for money.
Not only do I endorse this listing, but I will actively disocurage you from not booking or from booking elsewhere. If you are familiar with the concept of "fear of missing out" (it's a thing, look it up) then I can tell you, from personal experience, that what you would be missing out on, should you make the mistake of booking elsewhere, would justifiably induce in even the most carefree, grounded person a crippling terror of a primal, guttural nature. Your life could have been indescribably much better, had you not made such a preventable lapse in judgment.
Hyperbole warranted, I hope I have made my point. Too much praise is not even remotely enough.