Nick is a friendly and accommodating host. We only met him briefly as we were leaving at the end of our stay and he was coming in but he was always promptly available by messaging. Nicks house is up a steep and windy road off of a twisty windy road. Driving there at night was particularly interesting. The house overall was clean and neat, as was the room we stayed in. The bed is on a futon frame which wasn’t the most stable. He has cats who are sweet and very important to him, but they are kept in one room and because he was gone the whole time we stayed there, they were dying to get out of that one room and have some attention. As such the room they were in had quite a cat odor. Perhaps its not that bad when Nick is in residence but that is how it was when we were there. There is a whole suite downstairs that, had it been available, would have been a much better option. The walls are thin so you can hear others in the house quite easily. This place is tricky to review because there was plenty that was good about it - price relative to santa cruz, a nice host, up in the redwoods, a fair enough place to stay - but a few things that were challenging enough that i wouldn’t select it again.