Beautiful house in a great location, walkable to downtown or Boardwalk. Well equipped kitchen and bathrooms with everything we needed to cook and do some light baking (cookies). Nice extras too: board games, beach chairs, toiletries, basic spices and seasonings, Nespresso machine with stocked pods!!! Beds and linens were very comfortable. Excellent room in closets and dressers for everything you can possibly bring. The decor and furniture is attractive, comfortable, functional and durable (some places I've stayed have the cheapest possible option from Ikea - not this place). I loved the jetted tub in the master bedroom. The design with 2nd floor living space, bedrooms on above and below floors and two outdoor spaces (back yard patio accessible from one downstairs bedroom + 2nd level deck with seating, fire pit, BBQ), was great for my family - mom, two young teenaged boys, and grandpa - it gave us great central shared space and places both indoor and out to get away from each other when we needed some privacy. The house was impressively clean upon arrival.
The one parking space is small, but close-by street parking is not hard to come by because it requires parking passes on this block (provided by host). Such a walkable location, not a lot of need to move the car once there.
The host was unobtrusive, proactively communicative with essential information, and checked in once to make sure all was well. We had limited interaction because everything was well in order and we didn't need anything during our stay. But I felt like she was friendly and available if I did need anything.
One minor thing to be aware of - the location in this part of Santa Cruz, on Third St in particular, comes with intermittent, slow-moving - but sometimes loud - street traffic well into evening. No A/C in this house - it really isn't needed as the house cools off very easily and quickly in the early evening by opening windows. Top floor master open to Third St and adjacent Inn. Windows needed to stay open at night a couple of times when daytime highs were near 80 degrees (even with 2nd floor windows open all night too). We experienced noise in the master when windows were open from adjacent Inn (guests coming and going) and from vehicular traffic along the street, intermittently, until about midnight (maybe even later on last weekend night). Something to keep in mind if you like to go to bed early and are sensitive to street noise. It was not a big deal for me, as I was not even trying to fall asleep until about midnight on any of the days I was there, and the noise is nothing compared to big city nighttime sounds. It was not noticed by my ground floor bedroom sleepers at all (these bedrooms set back from the street and open to the west - backyard area).