Overall, we enjoyed our stay in San Jose. The location of this listing was convenient to the airport and highway as well as local attractions in San Jose.
The listing itself seemed to be recently renovated and the fenced yard was a very nice touch (we had our service dog with us) however we had three issues during our stay:
(1) the unit seemed clean when we arrived, however we quickly noticed used bar soap (with a hair on it) in the shower as well as a very odd dried red stain around one of the skylights.
(2) it was unclear when we booked the listing that it was part of a larger house and simply a sectioned off corner of the property. This wouldn’t have been a big issue onsite aside from the walls were VERY thin (and the neighboring tenant very loud) and there were two doors that seemed to connect the back space to the main house which were still doors, both with removed knobs and a material adhered to the opposite side so that you could not see through the doorknob hole.
(3) the host was very communicative during our stay until our final night when the guests in their adjoining listing were having a party (music over speakers, live music, singing, yelling, etc.). We sent several noise complaints to the host, and most after their self-declared quiet hours. The host said that they called the guests who promised to keep it down. He later said that he also visited the property and spoke to them, however outside of a 5-10 minute window from 8:30pm to about 2:30am, they were extremely loud and did not quiet down. At one point they were also banging on the common wall to our family room area (where one of our friends was trying to sleep on a couch). Eventually the host stopped responding completely which left us with very few options aside from calling a noise complaint to the local authorities.